Objekt 8
Miniature portrait of Gustav Adolf Faesch (1804-1853)
Description
The portrait depicts Gustav Adolf Faesch (1804-1853) as an 11-year-old boy wearing a tailcoat and striped vest. He was the son of Anna Christina Faesch-Schmidt (1770-1846; no. 310.5.7.) and Lukas Faesch-Schmidt (1770-1818; no. 8). in 1833 he married Adelheid Meticke (1840-1897) in Trieste, and raised a family in the northern Italian city.
Object description
Painter: probably Johann Jakob Müller (1762-1817)
probably Basel, around 1815
Silverpoint, pencil and watercolor on thin cardboard
Deposit Faeschische Family Foundation, Basel
Inv. 1961.256.