A couple seated on a red upholstered sofa; the gentleman holding the lady's left hand and his right arm around her shoulders, in silver-embroidered blue velvet coat, black breeches, white stockings, blue waistcoat and lace cravat, powdered wig en queue and she, holding a cup and saucer in her right hand, in white silk dress with deep lace cuffs, pink ribbon at corsage, pink flowers in her upswept and powdered curling hair and falling over her right shoulder; wooden table set with coffee pot, jug, cup and saucer and sugar bowl and nips, draped green curtain

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ANTON FRIEDRICH KÖNIG (GERMAN, 1722-1787)
A couple seated on a red upholstered sofa; the gentleman holding the lady's left hand and his right arm around her shoulders, in silver-embroidered blue velvet coat, black breeches, white stockings, blue waistcoat and lace cravat, powdered wig en queue and she, holding a cup and saucer in her right hand, in white silk dress with deep lace cuffs, pink ribbon at corsage, pink flowers in her upswept and powdered curling hair and falling over her right shoulder; wooden table set with coffee pot, jug, cup and saucer and sugar bowl and nips, draped green curtain
rectangular, 3 3/8 x 4 3/16 in. (85 x 106 mm.), gilt-wood frame

Provenance

Professor Dr Emerich Ullmann, Vienna; Fischer, Lucerne, 31 August-1 September 1937, lot 226.

Exhibited

Vienna, Nationalbibliothek, Das gemalte Kleinporträt, 1931, no. 607 (lent by Professor Dr. Emerich Ullmann, Vienna).

Special notice

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Lot Essay

A miniature by König with similar composition, misidentified as supposedly Prince Henry of Prussia and his wife Wilhelmina, is illustrated in D. Otten, Miniaturen aus der Sammlung Tansey, Munich, 2000, p. 103.

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