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Dietzsch original watercolor of Pink Flowers

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DIETZSCH, Barbara Regina (German, 1706-1783).
Untitled [Pink Flowers].
Watercolor with gouache and gold leaf on vellum.
C. 1765.
13 7/8" x 10 1/2" sheet, 24" x 20 3/4" framed.

Comparable: Auktionshaus Zofingen, 2021 - 16,000 CHF & 20,000 CHF.

Provenance: Hans Muller, Dusseldorf, Germany.

The Dietzsches were an important family of painters, engravers, and musicians that flourished in Nuremberg during the eighteenth century. The patronage of Dr. Christoph Trew, the great botanist and bibliographer, made Nuremberg one of the foremost centers of botanical art in the world, and the Dietzsch family was one of the most noted of the era. Dietzsch is particularly well known for her marvelous renderings of flowers and fruit in watercolor and gouache. Employed at the court of Nuremberg, she painted primarily in watercolor and gouache and produced extensively for engravers there. Her work was of such outstanding quality that it was used by Trew and the great flower painter Georg Ehret for a number of plates in the Hortus Nitidissimis (1750-86).

Indeed, even at the time of its production, Dietzsch's art was much sought after by collectors in both the Netherlands and England, and it is recorded that some of the best known painters of the time even accepted her works as a form of payment, signaling the type of celebrated reputation she was able to attain within her lifetime - a celebration that has only continued to grow ever since.

Like most of her family's work, Dietzsch's watercolors are often characterized by the use of a black or dark brown ground, and it is partly uponthe basis of this that the current attribution has been based. Ehret also occasionally placed his bouquets on a dark background, but these are notnearly as successful as Dietzsch's in making the subject come to life. Various examples of her work can be found in the Broughton Collection atthe Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England and in each the dark ground is present. What separates the work of Barbara Regina from that ofher other family members is the remarkable clarity of depiction and skill in rendering. With unbelievable mastery and stylistic power, Dietzschovercame contemporary misconceptions of womenÂ’s inferiority in the field of art, creating watercolors of distinctive splendor.

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DIETZSCH, Barbara Regina (German, 1706-1783).
Untitled [Pink Flowers].
Watercolor with gouache and gold leaf on vellum.
C. 1765.
13 7/8" x 10 1/2" sheet, 24" x 20 3/4" framed.

Comparable: Auktionshaus Zofingen, 2021 - 16,000 CHF & 20,000 CHF.

Provenance: Hans Muller, Dusseldorf, Germany.

The Dietzsches were an important family of painters, engravers, and musicians that flourished in Nuremberg during the eighteenth century. The patronage of Dr. Christoph Trew, the great botanist and bibliographer, made Nuremberg one of the foremost centers of botanical art in the world, and the Dietzsch family was one of the most noted of the era. Dietzsch is particularly well known for her marvelous renderings of flowers and fruit in watercolor and gouache. Employed at the court of Nuremberg, she painted primarily in watercolor and gouache and produced extensively for engravers there. Her work was of such outstanding quality that it was used by Trew and the great flower painter Georg Ehret for a number of plates in the Hortus Nitidissimis (1750-86).

Indeed, even at the time of its production, Dietzsch's art was much sought after by collectors in both the Netherlands and England, and it is recorded that some of the best known painters of the time even accepted her works as a form of payment, signaling the type of celebrated reputation she was able to attain within her lifetime - a celebration that has only continued to grow ever since.

Like most of her family's work, Dietzsch's watercolors are often characterized by the use of a black or dark brown ground, and it is partly uponthe basis of this that the current attribution has been based. Ehret also occasionally placed his bouquets on a dark background, but these are notnearly as successful as Dietzsch's in making the subject come to life. Various examples of her work can be found in the Broughton Collection atthe Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England and in each the dark ground is present. What separates the work of Barbara Regina from that ofher other family members is the remarkable clarity of depiction and skill in rendering. With unbelievable mastery and stylistic power, Dietzschovercame contemporary misconceptions of womenÂ’s inferiority in the field of art, creating watercolors of distinctive splendor.

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