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Frau Konsul Schroeder, full face in off-the-shoulder blue dress with large puffed sleeves, a magnifying glass suspended from a black ribbon about her neck, drop gold earring, her centre-parted dark hair upswept and dressed in an Apollo knot
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JOHANNES GAUFF (1804-1858)
Frau Konsul Schroeder, full face in off-the-shoulder blue dress with large puffed sleeves, a magnifying glass suspended from a black ribbon about her neck, drop gold earring, her centre-parted dark hair upswept and dressed in an Apollo knot
signed 'J. Gauff.' (mid-left)
octagonal, 3¼ x 3 1/8 in. (83 x 79 mm.), gilt-metal mount within pink moiré lined green leather travelling case with notebook
Frau Konsul Schroeder, full face in off-the-shoulder blue dress with large puffed sleeves, a magnifying glass suspended from a black ribbon about her neck, drop gold earring, her centre-parted dark hair upswept and dressed in an Apollo knot
signed 'J. Gauff.' (mid-left)
octagonal, 3¼ x 3 1/8 in. (83 x 79 mm.), gilt-metal mount within pink moiré lined green leather travelling case with notebook
Literature
U. Thieme/F. Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler, Leipzig, 1920, vol. 13, p. 265.
L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, I, p. 283.
L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, I, p. 283.
Exhibited
Mannheim, Grand-Ducal Castle, Werke der Kleinporträtkunst, 1909, no. 325 (lent by Heinrich Leonhard, Mannheim).
Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Bildnisminiaturen aus niedersächsischem Privatbesitz, 1918, no. 538 (lent by Dr. Leo Catzenstein, Hanover).
Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Bildnisminiaturen aus niedersächsischem Privatbesitz, 1918, no. 538 (lent by Dr. Leo Catzenstein, Hanover).
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