Portrait of King Frederick II of Prussia. 1740.

After the original by A. Pesne.

Engraving. 384 × 276.

Under the image, lower left: Peint par Ant: Pesne Peintre du Roi; lower right: Gravé par Wolffgang Graveur Roial á Berlin. 1740. Cum Privil. Reg.; centered below: Frederic Roi de Prusse et Electeur de Brandenbourg.

Inv. G 354.

Literature: Drugulin, 1860, Th. 1, № 6727.

Pesne, Antoine (Antoine Pesne; 1683, Paris – 1757, Berlin) – court painter of the Prussian royal court (from 1711), director of the Prussian Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin (from 1722). For about half a century he served at the court of three Prussian kings.

Frederick II the Great (1712, Berlin – 1786, Potsdam) – King of Prussia (from 1740).