ATTRIBUÉ À GEORG DESMARÉES (1697 - 1776)

Portrait of Princess Marie-Anne of Saxony (1728 - 1797), wife of Prince Elector Maximilian III of Bavaria. Oil on canvas. Around 1750. Height : 117 cm - Width : 89,5 cm Marie-Anne of Saxony is represented in the center of the painting with a city on the edge of a lake in the background. Her left arm is leaning on a cane whose strap passes on her arm, on her right her greyhound looks at her with insistence in sign of allegiance. He wears a light blue collar with the initials of the princess (SMAS) around his neck. She wears a skirt with blue and pink stripes on a cream background tied at the waist with a blue ribbon. The top is composed of a caraco in faded incarnate cloth revealing a white blouse set with a lace. GEORG DESMARÉES (1697 - 1776) Pupil of Peter Martin van Meytens of which he became the collaborator. Born in Stockholm, he left in 1724 for Amsterdam, then he went to Nuremberg, then to Venice where he received lessons from Piazetta. In 1731, he settled in Munich and became a court painter until his death in 1776. He painted a number of official portraits of Princess Marie-Anne of Saxony, which are kept in the Residenz in Munich.