Attributed to Wendelin Moosbrugger (1760-1849)

Portrait of Maria Franziska, Countess of Waldburg zu Zeil-Wurzach, née Countess of Fugger von Babenhausen (1771-1841), seated small three-quarter length by the foot of a tree, wearing a brown dress with bonnet, holding a book, a view of the Bodensee beyond

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Attributed to Wendelin Moosbrugger (1760-1849)
Portrait of Maria Franziska, Countess of Waldburg zu Zeil-Wurzach, née Countess of Fugger von Babenhausen (1771-1841), seated small three-quarter length by the foot of a tree, wearing a brown dress with bonnet, holding a book, a view of the Bodensee beyond
with a label on the stretcher identifying the sitter
oil on canvas
47.4 x 39.2 cm
and a Portrait of Leopold, Count of Waldburg zu Zeil-Wurzach (1769-1800), by an unknown German hand (2)

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For the attribution compare the portrait of a family of circa 1810 in the Rosgarten Museum, Konstanz (Badisches Landesmuseum, exhibition catalogue, Karlsruhe, 1965/6, n04).
The Rehmen-Vorarlberg born artist took his apprenticeship in Constance as a painter of room decorations. Through the recommendation of Kurfürst Karl Theodor, he entered the Academy of Mannheim in 1775. He was mostly active in Constance and is recorded to have received commissions from the Baden and the Württemberg courts (Badisches Landesmuseums, exhibition catalogue, Karlsruhe, 1965/6, under no4).

The sitters married on 15 October 1798.

See colour illustration of one

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