Lot 11: HEINRICH FRIEDRICH FUEGER | Portrait de Frederick Charles Joseph, Baron von Erthal, Evêque, Electeur du Main (1719-1802) 

Aquarelle et gouache sur ivoire dans un cadre en bronze doré avec une bordure en perles dorées;
Signé et daté en bas à droite sur la chaise: Fuger. / pinxit / 1789  

 

182 x 145 mm

Aquarelle et gouache sur ivoire dans un cadre en bronze doré avec une bordure en perles dorées;<br />Signé et daté en bas à droite sur la chaise: <em>Fuger. / pinxit / 1789 </em>  <p> </p>

The miniature is very strong and powerful, the colours has been well preserved. There is a crack to the ivory located at the upper left edge of the sheet, this measures circa 45mm.
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E. Leisching, Die Bildnisminiatur in Osterreich, 1750-1850, Vienne, 1906, p. 102-3;
F. Laban, Unveröffentlichte Füger-Miniaturen, Leipzig, 1909, p. 249;
A. Springer, Handbuch der Kunstgeschichte, vol. V, Leipzig, 1925, p. 190, fig. 221;
E. Conderhove-Erthal, Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte, vol. X, Die Kunst am Hofe des Ersten Kurfursten von Mainz, 1935, no. 55, p. 77

Vente anonyme, Christie's, Londres, 8 juin 1971, lot 75