
Auction Closed
December 5, 07:06 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
HEINRICH FRIEDRICH FÜGER
Heilbronn 1751 - 1818 Vienna
PORTRAIT OF PRINCESS CHRISTIANE VON LICHNOWSKY, NÉE THUN (1765-1841), CIRCA 1785
Watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, gilt-metal frame, ribbon tie surmount, silver back plate with enamelled monogram: CT
78 by 58 mm.
Sale, London, Christie's, 27 November 1985, lot 40
The sitter was the daughter of Count Franz Josef Anton von Thun und Hohenstein (1734–1801) and his wife Maria Wilhelmine Uhlfeld. In 1788 she married Karl Alois, Prince Lichnowsky (1761-1814). She, along with her two sisters, Elizabeth and Karoline, was the subject of one of Fuger's most celebrated miniatures 'The Grafinnen Thun' (Berlin Staatliche Museen, inv. no. M. 106).