In the collection of the owner's great-grandfather, Germany, by the 1920s;
Thence by descent.

The canvas is lined, the paint surface is clean and the varnish is slightly discoloured and uneven. There are small spots of paint loss with associated retouchings along the edges. Visible spots of retouching also appear in the sitter's proper right cheek, to the right of the top of her hair, and scattered in the sky upper left. Inspection under ultraviolet light reveals a a milky varnish underneath which these are visible, but otherwise the work appears to be in very good condition. Offered in a plain painted frame with minor losses.
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This painting is a second version of the portrait of Elisabeth von Breitenbach, dated to circa 1775, in the Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart.¹ Though traditionally ascribed to Johann Heinrich Tischbein (1722-89), more recently Dr. Marianne Heinz has attributed this portrait to his younger brother, Anton Wilhelm Tischbein (written correspondence, 25 January 2018). We are grateful to Dr. Heinz for her help with the cataloguing of this lot and for her endorsement of the attribution. 1. Inv. no. 2021; see Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Katalog der Staatsgalerie Stuttgart alte Meister, Stuttgart 1962, p. 222.