Get a Shenau Certificate of Authenticity for your painting (COA) for your Shenau drawing.

For all your Shenau artworks you need a Certificate of Authenticity (COA) in order to sell, to insure or to donate for a tax deduction.

Getting a Shenau Certificate of Authenticity (COA) is easy. Just send us photos and dimensions and tell us what you know about the origin or history of your Shenau painting or drawing.

If you want to sell your Shenau painting or drawing use our selling services. We offer Shenau selling help, selling advice, private treaty sales and full brokerage.

We have been authenticating Shenau and issuing certificates of authenticity since 2002. We are recognized Shenau experts and Shenau certified appraisers. We issue COAs and appraisals for all Shenau artworks.

Our Shenau paintings and drawings authentications are accepted and respected worldwide.

Each COA is backed by in-depth research and analysis authentication reports.

The Shenau certificates of authenticity we issue are based on solid, reliable and fully referenced art investigations, authentication research, analytical work and forensic studies.

We are available to examine your Shenau painting or drawing anywhere in the world.

You will generally receive your certificates of authenticity and authentication report within two weeks. Some complicated cases with difficult to research Shenau paintings or drawings take longer.

Our clients include Shenau collectors, investors, tax authorities, insurance adjusters, appraisers, valuers, auctioneers, Federal agencies and many law firms.

We perform Johann Eleazar Zeissig Shenau art authentication, appraisal, certificates of authenticity (COA), analysis, research, scientific tests, full art authentications. We will help you sell your Johann Eleazar Zeissig Shenau or we will sell it for you.

Johann Eleazar Zeissig Shenau was an 18th century European genre painter. He rarely painted portraits, and the only portraits that he did produce were mainly self-portraits. He was a pupil of portraitist Johann Christian Bessler, who brought the young artist to the Dresden academy. He later moved to Paris where he worked as an autodictat and an engraver. He spent his time in Paris copying masterworks at the Louvre and later at Versaille.

One of the most famous portraits by Shenau was that of Saxon elector Frederic August III (later, the King of Saxony from 1806-1827). Though his portraits were fine and in demand, Shenau eventually became known for his historical and genre subjects, due to his friendship with fellow painters Greuze and Chardin. Throughout his career, he served as a professor at both the Dresden Academy and at the Messen Porcelain Manufactory.

Today, Shenau’s work is housed in major art museums in German and around the world, and perhaps in your own home. Still wondering about an 18th century European painting in your family collection? Contact us…it could be by Johann Eleazar Zeissig Shenau.