Cornelius Hoyer

This lot is sold pursuant to a settlement agreement between the Estate of Emma Budge and the current owner. | This lot contains ivory. Due to recent changes in the laws of many countries (e.g. US, France) Sotheby’s recommends that buyers check with their own government regarding any importation requirements prior to placing a bid. For example, US regulations restrict the import of elephant ivory and prohibit the import of African elephant ivory. Please note that Sotheby’s will not assist buyers with CITES licence applications where a buyer elects to either collect or arrange their own shipping, nor will Sotheby’s assist with the international movement of ivory by air, either as freight or through hand carry. Sotheby’s shipping will only assist in shipping the lot to either domestic UK or EU destinations, where delivery is made by road transport. A buyer’s inability to export or import these lots cannot justify a delay in payment or sale cancellation.

Emma Ranette Budge, née Lazarus (1852-1937), Hamburg;
sale, The collection of Frau Emma Budge, Berlin, Paul Graupe, 27-29 September 1937, lot 351;
with A La Vieille Russie, New York;
Greta Shield Heckett (1899-1976), Pittsburgh, by 1954;
sale, Monaco, Sotheby’s, 4 May 1977, lot 89;
sale, Geneva, Sotheby’s, 16 November 1993, lot 15;
where acquired by Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher (1919-2016)

H. Colding, Cornelius Hoyer 1741-1804, Copenhagen, 1961, p. 277, no. 327;
L.R. Schidlof, La miniature en Europe, Graz, 1964, p. 392, no. 583
N. Lemoine-Bouchard, Les peintres en miniature actifs en France 1650-1850, Paris, 2008, p. 293;
R. Keil, Heinrich Fredrich Fuger 1751-1818, Vienna, 2009, pp. 29, 30, footnote 48

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Four Centuries of Portrait Miniatures from the Heckett Collection, 1958, no. 108