Skip to content

Objekt 6

Miniature portrait of Lukas Faesch-Schmidt (1770-1818)

Description

Lukas Faesch-Schmidt (1770-1818) was a merchant from Basel. His wife Anna Christine Faesch-Schmid (1770-1846) came from Lahr in the Black Forest (No. 7). The sitter wears a tailcoat and a knotted white neck ribbon.

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. 1961.254.

Newsletter

Subscribe