Property of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher (1919-2016)
Heinrich Friedrich Füger
Portrait of Archduchess Marie Clémentine of Austria, later Crown Princess of Naples (1777-1801), circa 1795
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December 9, 05:16 PM GMT
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3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Property of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher (1919-2016)
Heinrich Friedrich Füger
Heilbronn 1751 - 1818 Vienna
Portrait of Archduchess Marie Clémentine of Austria, later Crown Princess of Naples (1777-1801), circa 1795
watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, silver-gilt open-work frame, inlaid with glass pastes
6.2 cm. Diam. 2⅜ in. Diam.
Princess Mathilde of Saxony (d. 1933), by 1909;
Ernst Holzscheiter (d. 1962);
Sale, London, Sotheby's, 9 June 1986, lot 18
Ernst Holzscheiter (d. 1962);
Sale, London, Sotheby's, 9 June 1986, lot 18
Brussels, Hôtel du Baron Goffinet, Exposition de la miniature, 1912, no. 768 (lent by Princess Mathilde of Saxony);
Vienna, Albertina, Meisterwerke der europäischen miniaturmalerei, 1965, no. 162
Vienna, Albertina, Meisterwerke der europäischen miniaturmalerei, 1965, no. 162
E. Lemberger, Die Bildnisminiatur in Deutschland, Munch 1909, no. 173, p. 349, pl. XLIV;
L. Gillet, C. Jeannerat, H. Clouzot, Miniatures and Enamels from the D. David-Weill Collection, Paris 1957, p. 114;
R. Keil, Heinrich Friedrich Fuger 1751-1818, Vienna 2009, p. 307, no. 339
L. Gillet, C. Jeannerat, H. Clouzot, Miniatures and Enamels from the D. David-Weill Collection, Paris 1957, p. 114;
R. Keil, Heinrich Friedrich Fuger 1751-1818, Vienna 2009, p. 307, no. 339
Marie Clémentine (1771-1801) was the daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor Léopold II. In 1797 she married her first cousin Francesco, Crown Prince of Naples and Sicily, later Francesco I, King of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Their only child, Maria-Carolina, married Charles Ferdinand, Duc de Bérry.