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Portrait of Count Heinrich von Brühl. 1750

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Portrait of Count Heinrich von Brühl. 1750

After the original by L. de Silvester. 1728
Engraving. 530 x 390.
Under the image, on the left: Peint par Louis de Sylvestre pr. Peintre de Sa Majesté le Roy de Pologne Electeur de Saxe; on the right: Gravé par Balechoux in 1750; in the center, on both sides of the coat of arms: Henry Comte de Brühl Premier Ministre de Sa Majeste le Roy de Pologne Electeur de Saxe.
Frontispiece for edition of «Recueil d'estampes gravées d'après les tableaux de la galerie et du cabinet de S. E. Mr. le comte de Bruhl» (Dresde, 1754) (Collection of engravings from paintings in the gallery and cabinet of His Excellency Count de Brühl).
Inv. G 349.
Literature: Firmin-Didot, t. 1, p. 20, № 74 (III state); Inventaire BNF XVIIIe s., t. 1, p. 424, № 45 (III state); Belleudy, 1908, p. 62, № 4.
Silvestre, Louis de (1675, Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine – 1760, Paris) – French artist. From 1716 to 1752 he was a court painter at the Saxon royal court in Dresden.
Brühl, Heinrich von (1700–1763) – first minister of Augustus III, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony.

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