Lot 183: JOHANN BAPTIST GÖSTL (AUSTRIAN, 1813-1895)

JOHANN BAPTIST GÖSTL (AUSTRIAN, 1813-1895)
Princess Maria Anna of Savoy (1803-1884), Empress of Austria 1835-1848, in frilled white off-the-shoulders dress, gold-trimmed blue shawl worn over right shoulder, wearing a four-strand pearl necklace, her dark upswept hair dressed in plaits, wearing a black cap decorated with an ostrich feather; together with a copy of H. Fuchs, Die Österreichische Bildnisminiatur. Von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart, I, Vienna, 1981
signed 'Göstl' (mid-left)
on ivory
oval, 2 7/8 in. (72 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame with inner beaded surround
Inscribed in pencil on the backing card 'Kaiserin Anna Gemalin Kaisers Ferdinand I.' (2)

H. Fuchs, Die Österreichische Bildnisminiatur. Von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart, I, Vienna, 1981, illustrated p. 235, no. 167.
H. Fuchs, 'Die österreichische Bildnisminiatur', Weltkunst, 1 November 1981, illustrated p. 3201.

with City Galerie, Vienna, in 1983.

PROPERTY FROM A GERMAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
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JOHANN BAPTIST GÖSTL (AUSTRIAN, 1813-1895)
Princess Maria Anna of Savoy (1803-1884), Empress of Austria 1835-1848, in frilled white off-the-shoulders dress, gold-trimmed blue shawl worn over right shoulder, wearing a four-strand pearl necklace, her dark upswept hair dressed in plaits, wearing a black cap decorated with an ostrich feather; together with a copy of H. Fuchs, Die Österreichische Bildnisminiatur. Von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart, I, Vienna, 1981
signed 'Göstl' (mid-left)
on ivory
oval, 2 7/8 in. (72 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame with inner beaded surround
Inscribed in pencil on the backing card 'Kaiserin Anna Gemalin Kaisers Ferdinand I.' (2)