Lot 238: ASCRIBED TO BERNHARD EDLER VON GUERARD (AUSTRO-GERMAN, D. 1836)

ASCRIBED TO BERNHARD EDLER VON GUERARD (AUSTRO-GERMAN, D. 1836)
A marriage portrait of Count Nicolas of Esterházy de Galántha (1775-1856) and his wife Marie Françoise, née de Baudry, Marquise de Roisin (1776-1845); he, in brown coat, white waistcoat and cravat, powdered hair and taking his wife's left arm; she, in white dress with blue stole draped around her arms and holding a pink rose in her left hand, falling gauze veil tied in her curling brown hair; tree and landscape background
on ivory
3½ in. (88 mm.) diam., gilt-metal frame, the border engraved 'Nicolas Comte d'Esterházy-Galantha-Forchtenstein, né à Vienne le 1. Jan 1775, et Marie Françoise Marquise de Roisin, née à Douai le 24 Janvier 1776. Mariés à Vienne le 1. Juin 1799.-', the glazed reverse set with silvered initials FNE on woven hair ground

Pittsburgh, Pa., Carnegie Institute, Four Centuries of Portrait Miniatures from the Heckett Collection, 1954, no. 97, illustrated pl. XL.

E. Leisching, Die Bildnis-Miniatur in Österreich von 1750 bis 1850, Vienna, 1907, p. 247, no. 141, pl. XXII, no. 4.
Thieme-Becker, Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon, Leipzig, 1922, vol. 15, p. 213.

Count Nikolaus Moritz Esterházy, Csakvar, Hungary, in 1907.
Martin Ullmann, New York.
Greta Shield Heckett (1899-1976) Collection, Pittsburgh, Pa.; part I, Sotheby's, Monaco, 4 May 1977, lot 99.