Property of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher (1919-2016)
Michael Moritz Daffinger
Portrait of Count Heinrich Bellegarde (1798-1871); together with his wife Pauline, née von Wolkenstein-Trostburg (1805-1884), circa 1830
Lot Closed
December 9, 06:31 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
Lot Details
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Property of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher (1919-2016)
Michael Moritz Daffinger
Vienna 1790 - 1848
Portrait of Count Heinrich Bellegarde (1798-1871); together with his wife Pauline, née von Wolkenstein-Trostburg (1805-1884), circa 1830
each watercolour and bodycolour, heightened with gold on ivory, gold frames;
the first indistinctly signed, both inscribed with sitter's names on the reverse
Each 8.4 by 7 cm.; 3⅜ by 2¾ in., 8.4 by 7.1 cm., 3⅜ by 2¾ in.
Hans Baron Reitzes von Marienwert (1877-1935), Vienna, by 1923;
Galeries Fischer, Luzern, 8 May 1947, lot 431 & 432;
Ernst Holzscheiter, Meilen;
Sale, London, Sotheby's, 9 June 1986, lot 83
Galeries Fischer, Luzern, 8 May 1947, lot 431 & 432;
Ernst Holzscheiter, Meilen;
Sale, London, Sotheby's, 9 June 1986, lot 83
Vienna, Albertina, Internationale Miniaturen-Ausstellung in der Albertina, 1924, nos. 201 & 202
L. Grünstein, Mortiz Michael Daffinger und sein Kreis, Vienna/Leipzig, 1923, p. 135
These portraits were almost certainly painted at the time of the sitter's marriage in 1830.