You are bidding on a beautiful one Drawing around 1850.

Pencil on paper.

Title:"Tête de Bouc" (=head of a goat / goat's head).

Signed "F. Owstien" (Reading somewhat uncertain.)


It's probably about Luise Friederike Wilhelmine von Owstien (* 3. August 1819 in Torgau; † 20. September 1891 in Breslau), daughter of Prussian major general and commander of the Graudenz fortress August Georg Karl Philipp von Owstien (* 21. June 1771 in Stettin, died. 15. March 1847 in Breslau) and since 1864 second wife of Prime Minister Robert von Burgsdorff (1817-1902); the drawing was in an estate from Robert von Burgsdorff.


Format:Sheet 23 x 26.3 cm; Motif approx. 18.8 x 17.5 cm.

Paper with watermark "B & H v B". -- Paper of this brand was used by the poet Annette von Droste-Hülshoff and the painter Friedrich Thurau, among others.

Condition: Paper folded and slightly wrinkled, with minor creases and damage to the edges, stained at the edge. Pleasee also note the pictures!

Internal note: EVS 2106-04


You are bidding on a beautiful one Drawing around 1850. It's probably about Luise Friederike Wilhelmine von Owstien (* 3. August 1819 in Torgau; † 20. September 1891 in Breslau), daughter of Prussian major general and commander of the Graudenz fortress August Georg Karl Philipp von Owstien (* 21. June 1771 in Stettin, died. 15. March 1847 in Breslau) and since 1864 second wife of Prime Minister Robert von Burgsdorff (1817-1902); the drawing was in an estate from Robert von Burgsdorff. Format:Sheet 23 x 26.3 cm; Motif approx. 18.8 x 17.5 cm. Paper with watermark "B & H v B". -- Paper of this brand was used by the poet Annette von Droste-Hülshoff and the painter Friedrich Thurau, among others. Condition: Paper folded and slightly wrinkled, with minor creases and damage to the edges, stained