# Frederick the Great as Crown Prince

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## Artwork

- Artist: [PESNE, Antoine](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pesne-antoine-r96972fb78a9af5>)
- Date: 1701-1750
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 78 x 63 cm

## Commentary

This portrait of the twenty-seven-year-old prince Frederick II moves from the real to the ideal, from the documentary to flattery. It was painted in 1739 when the prince acceded to the throne. Pesne politely foreshortened the prince&#39;s great nose. For this portrait the new king of Prussia is suitably regal in velvet and ermine over armour, invested with the Order of the Black Eagle, which was founded by his grandfather Frederick I in 1701.

## Related artworks

- [Girl with Pigeons](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pesne-antoine-r96972fb78a9af5/girl-with-pigeons-r348e8e1d097edb>)
- [Jean Mariette, Engraver](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pesne-antoine-r96972fb78a9af5/jean-mariette-engraver-ra42faf70ae9e93>)
- [Marianne Cochois](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pesne-antoine-r96972fb78a9af5/marianne-cochois-reeb6101359d68a>)
- [Portrait of Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pesne-antoine-r96972fb78a9af5/portrait-of-georg-wenzeslaus-von-knobelsdorff-rab892c79cae0d6>)
- [Portrait of Johanna Elisabeth, Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pesne-antoine-r96972fb78a9af5/portrait-of-johanna-elisabeth-princess-of-anhalt-zerbst-rbc5eef76eae2b8>)
- [Self-Portrait with Daughters](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pesne-antoine-r96972fb78a9af5/self-portrait-with-daughters-r5fca3ff4a90c21>)
- [The Dancer Barbara Campanini](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pesne-antoine-r96972fb78a9af5/the-dancer-barbara-campanini-reb2fdb95e2283c>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)