Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer and statesman.
His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour; and four novels.
In addition, numerous literary and scientific fragments, more than 10,000 letters, and nearly 3,000 drawings by him are extant.
A literary celebrity by the age of 25, Goethe was ennobled by the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Karl August in 1782 after first taking up residence there in November 1775 following the success of his first novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther.

This portrait is a very faithful copy of the well-known portrait by Stieler (1828)

dimension frame (vertically) : 142 mm.
inner dimension ring: 81 mm.

both frame and portrait are in excellent condition.
backside information: a glued paper mentionning some events of the year 1908.
The painting therefor must be early 20th century.





stock number 402