Joseph Hickel Böhmisch-Leipa 1736 - 1807 Vienna

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Description

Joseph Hickel
Portrait of Maria-Theresia, Altgräfin zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Raitz (1757-1830), half length, in a mauve dress, with a green bow, a lace collar and scarf
inscribed on the reverse with the identity of the sitter
oil on unlined canvas, oval, in its original carved and gilt wood frame

Provenance

Probably His Excellency Paul, 4th Fürst von Metternich-Winneburg (1834-1906) (according to an inscription on the reverse of the frame);
Thence by descent to Princess von Metternich, Wiesbaden.

Catalogue Note

Maria-Theresia married firstly in 1778, Johann Friedrich Graf von Kageneck (d. 1800) and secondly, in 1807, Auguste, Comte de Buissy. The sitter's first husband's sister was Maria Beatrix Gräfin von Kageneck (1755-1822) who married Franz Georg, 1st Fürst von Metternich-Winneburg (1746-1818), parents of Clemens Wenzel Lothar, 2nd Fürst von Metternich-Winneburg (1773-1859), the Austrian statesman and diplomat.