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prinzsorgenfrei ([personal profile] prinzsorgenfrei) wrote in [personal profile] cahn 2020-10-14 01:48 pm (UTC)

Re: Katte portraits

I just checked Kloosterhuis as well and now I feel like I should attempt to find the old photos of the other Katte portraits... I recognize one of them (apart from The Yellow One and The One With His Sister) and it would be interesting to compare all of them, face wise.

Oh, I remember the de Catt portrait! My friend and I noticed it in Wust and thought it was a bit stange. I know that it's been printed and dubbed a portrait of Katte in at least one Fritz biography, but I do agree that it's probably not him.
I found a high resolution coloured version here and the museum it's in dates it to around 1763 and assumes it's de Catt. Zoomed in, the face is also just... very different from other depictions (and descriptions) of Katte.

I'm not sure where the people in Wust got that particular picture since it's not in the brochure that I bought there, but they did make some mistakes with pictures in there too (mainly mixing up some of the Menzel sketches from the illustrated biography), so they might just have stumbled upon some weird sources for pictures they use.

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