Franz Bernhard FREY Guebwiller, 1716 - 1806 Portrait of Baroness Dietrich, Countess of Ban de la Roche, born Amélie-Anne-Dorothée Hermani (1729-1766) in a mock oval Pastel Enlarged by a band of 2 to 3 cm around the edge In a carved and gilded oak frame, French work of the Louis XVI period Portrait of the baroness Dietrich, pastel, by F. B Frey 58 x 48 cm (22.83 x 18.90 in.) Provenance: Collection of Baron A. de Dietrich in 1908; Anonymous sale; Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Auction Art, Rémy le Fur & Associés, 30 November 2011, n°171 ; Acquired at this sale by the current owner; Private collection, Centre-Val de Loire Exhibitions: 'Exposition de cent pastels du XVIIIe siècle', Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 18 May-10 June 1908, p. 10, no. 18 (according to Neil Jeffares) Bibliography: Gustave Labat, "Etude sur l'Exposition de cent pastels du XVIIIe siècle", in 'Actes de l'Académie nationale des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Bordeaux', LXXI, 1909, p. 15 Neil Jeffares, 'Dictionary of pastellists before 1800', online version, no. J.329.11 (accessed 14 February 2024)