Two portraits of the Artist’s Daughter Friederike
  • Ludwig Emil Grimm
  • Hanau 1790 - 1863 Cassel
  • Two portraits of the Artist’s Daughter Friederike
  • Pencil on paper, part of a former family album
  • inscribed with pencil on the lower left: Montag den / 16. Januar 1848. Abends ad. viv
    On the upper right: Sontag Abends / 17 Nov 1850 adviv
  • 125 × 201 mm
Provenance:
Friederike von Eschwege, née Grimm, Cassel
C. G. Boerner, Düsseldorf 1976, (Neue Lagerliste N67, no. 102, p. 162, ill.)
Literature:
Ingrid Koszinowski/ Vera Leuschner: Ludwig Emil Grimm, Zeichnungen und Gemälde, Marburg 1990, vol. 1, no. P405, p. 185

Friederike Grimm, depicted here, was born on 23 July 1833 as the painter’s only child. Numerous drawings bespeak the close relationship between father and daughter, in whose household the father also spent his last years. The present portraits formed, together with a handwritten poem by Ludwig Emil Grimm, part of the sitter’s family album.