Portrait of the doctor Friedrich Hoffmann. 1735.

After the original by A. Pesne.

Stipple and graver engraving. 288 × 212.

Under the image, in the centre: Fridericus Hoffmannus Regiae Majestatis Prussicae Consiliarius intimus, Archiater et Professor Medicinae .... Natus 1660. Below, lower left: Anton Pesne Pictor R. Effigiem Pinx.; lower right: F.G.Wolffgang, Sculptor R. sculpsit Berolini 1735.

Inv. G 368.

Literature: Drugulin, 1860, Th. 1, № 9131.

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.

Hoffmann, Friedrich (1660, Halle – 1742, Halle) – German physician, one of the founders of the University of Halle (1693), where he headed the departments of medicine and natural philosophy. Personal physician of Prussian kings Frederick I and Frederick William I.