Lot 222: WINCENTY DE LESSEUR-LESSEROWITCZ (POLISH, 1745/46-1813), AFTER MARCELLO BACCIARELLI (ITALIAN, 1731-1818)

WINCENTY DE LESSEUR-LESSEROWITCZ (POLISH, 1745/46-1813), AFTER MARCELLO BACCIARELLI (ITALIAN, 1731-1818)
Stanislas II Augustus Poniatowski (1732-1798), King of Poland 1764-1795, in fur-bordered blue robe, frilled shirt, seated at a desk, his right hand on an hour glass next to a crown, his left on a document inscribed 'Qua sivit Coelo /Lucem' on the desk engraved 'Stanislaus Augustus Rex Po.. M. Dux Lith. MDCCLXXXXIIII', globe, red curtain and sky background
signed with initials and dated 'W. L 1798' (lower left)
on ivory
rectangular, 4¼ x 3½ in. (105 x 88 mm.), ormolu frame with coronet and cypher surmount
the reverse of the frame is stamped 36.

G. C. Williamson, Catalogue of the Collection of Miniatures - The Property of J. Pierpont Morgan, London, 1906, III, pp. 158-159, no. 529, illustrated pl. CLXXVI (as by Wilhelm Chodowiecki after a portrait by Marcel Bacciarelli, erroneously as from the Collection of Stanislas II Augustus Poniatowski, King of Poland, no. 36).

John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) Collection, New York; Christie's, London, 24 June 1935, lot 488 (as by Wilhelm Chodowiecki, 36 gns to Frank Partridge).
Christie's, London, 29 November 1977, lot 102 (£700).