Lot 112
  • 112

HEINRICH FRIEDRICH FÜGER | Portrait of three ladies

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • Heinrich Friedrich Füger
  • Portrait of three ladies
  • Watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, silver-gilt frame;signed and dated lower left: Füger / 1791
  • 114 mm. Diam.

Provenance

With Wildenstein, by 1912;
with Galerie Rosenaum, Berlin & Frankfurt, by 1928;
Leo R. Schidlof (d. 1966), London, by 1956;
by descent until;
sale, Geneva, Christie's, November 1994, lot 148

Exhibited

Geneva,1956, no. 169;
Vienna, 1965, no. 153

Literature

Mauclair, 1912, p. 20, illust.;
Schidlof, 1964, vol. II, p. 979, no. 437, vol. III, no 437, illust.;
Geismeier & Burock, 1986, p. 80;
Keil, 2009, p. 277, no. 246, illust.;
Michaelis, 2012

Condition

Surface good but colours have faded.
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