A Pair of Portraits of a Man and a Woman

Details

Jacob Maentel (1763-1863)
A Pair of Portraits of a Man and a Woman
watercolor on paper
12 x 8 in. (each)
Executed circa 1815

Provenance

Stanley F. Todd Collection
Samuel T. Freeman, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1966
Dr. and Mrs. Edward Bohne, Pennsylvania
Private Collection, Falmouth, Maine
Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., New York

Lot Essay

Facing each other in profile, their hair and garments finely rendered and standing on a small tuft that hints at a larger space, the figures in this pair of portraits well illustrate the distinctive style of German immigrant artist Jacob Maentel (1763-1863) and in particular his work dating from circa 1810 to 1820.

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