Antique Master Print-CHRISTIAN-ULRICH-VON-KETELHODT-GERMAN-CHANCELLOR-Haid-1757

Name: Antique Master Print-CHRISTIAN-ULRICH-VON-KETELHODT-GERMAN-CHANCELLOR-Haid-1757
SKU: PICTURA-12730
Availability: InStock

€295.00

‘CHRISTIANUS ULRICUS DE KETELHODT IN CAMBS, CAR. RUDOLPHPOL. CANCELLARIUS SEREN. PRINCIP. SCHWARZB. RUDOLPHPOL. ET PREFES CONSIST. ORDINIS MEGAPOLIT. FIDELITATIS ET CONSTANTIA EQUUS SOCIETATIS LIPSIENS. ET GERM. SODALIS. NAT. GUSTROW D. 5 AUG. 1701.’ WITH CREDITS BELOW: ‘MORGENSTERN PINX.’ AND ‘J. JACOB HAID SC. ET EXCUD.”

– Half-length portrait of Christian Ulrich von Ketelhodt seated in an interior. He wears an embroidered noble coat and an order cross and sits beside a table with books and papers; a draped curtain and bookcase appear in the background. A heraldic coat of arms with extensive Latin titulature is engraved beneath the portrait. Christian Ulrich von Ketelhodt (5 August 1701, Gustrow – 1777) was a German statesman and high official in the principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt. Educated in law, he entered princely service and rose to become chancellor (Kanzler) of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt. Ketelhodt also served as vice-director of the Rudolstadt consistory and was associated with scholarly societies, including the Leipzig learned society. As a senior administrative official he played an important role in the governance and legal administration of the small Thuringian principality during the eighteenth century.

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SKU: PICTURA-12730 Categories: By Famous Engravers, Portraits-Figures Tag: Portrait

Description

Medium: Mezzotint (Schabkunst), printed in black on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 26.6 x 42.8 cm (10.47 x 16.85 inch). Image size: 19.9 x 31.5 cm. (7.83 x 12.4 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Light foxing, soling and creasing. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

CHRISTIAN ULRICH VON KETELHODT, SCHWARZBURG-RUDOLSTADT CHANCELLOR, GERMAN NOBILITY PORTRAIT, JOHANN JAKOB HAID MEZZOTINT, 18TH CENTURY GERMAN STATESMAN, RUDOLSTADT HISTORY PORTRAIT, AUGSBURG PRINTMAKING | PCO-EXPO-PORTRAITS

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Johann Jakob Haid, Neue Sammlung von Bildnissen gelehrter um die Kirche, um das gemeine Wesen und um das Reich der Wissenschaften verdienter noch lebender Manner, Augsburg, 1757.

Reference: Digitaler Portraitindex druckgraphischer Bildnisse der Fruhen Neuzeit; Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbuttel, inv. A 10954.

Biography engraver: Johann Jakob Haid (1704-1767) was a German engraver, mezzotint specialist, publisher, and art dealer active in Augsburg. He was among the most important German practitioners of mezzotint in the eighteenth century. Haid produced numerous portraits of European nobility, scholars, clergy, and officials, often after paintings by contemporary artists. Through his publishing house he distributed portrait prints widely across the German states, contributing significantly to the popularity of mezzotint portraiture in Central Europe.

Biography artist: Johann Christoph Morgenstern (1712-1767) was a German painter and portraitist active in the mid-eighteenth century. He worked primarily in central Germany and produced portraits of aristocrats, officials, and scholars. Several of his paintings served as models for engraved portraits published by Augsburg printmakers such as Johann Jakob Haid, helping disseminate images of notable German figures.