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)

painting: waterbased on an ivory chip
frame: ivory with inlay.
not signed
preservation painting: excellent
preservation frame: good
dimension vertically: 104 mm
inner diameter: 46 mm
thick: 10 mm
convex glass
small round eyelet





stock number 487