Highlights
Sleeping shepherdess
- Artist
- Johann Christoph Ludwig Lücke
- Locality
- Zweibrücken or Höchst
- Date
- 1750s
- Material
- Ivory, wood, partly polychromed, steel
- Dimensions
- H. 19.9 cm
- Location
- Gallery 100
- Inventory Number
- R 5862.1
- Acquisition
- From the collection of the Regensburg ecclesiastic counselor Andreas Udalrich Mayr
- Epoch
- Baroque and Rococo
Description
The beautiful young woman lies asleep on a luxurious chaise longue. The furniture and the fashionable outfit only seem to contradict the depiction as a shepherdess. In the Rococo period, it was fashionable at European courts to indulge in an idealised 'simple' life as a change from the strict rules of courtly protocol. A comparison of the sleeping woman with known portraits suggests that it is the portrait of Marianne Camasse, who as Countess Forbach was married in a morganatic marriage to Duke Christian IV of Palatinate-Zweibrücken. The ivory collector Mayr acquired the statuette from his estate.
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