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MORITZ MICHAEL DAFFINGER (AUSTRIAN, 1790-1849)
Lot 278VARIOUS PROPERTIES

MORITZ MICHAEL DAFFINGER (AUSTRIAN, 1790-1849)

Prince Innocent Odescalchi (1778-1833), in black coat with velvet collar, in claret-coloured waistcoat and black cravat; crimson drapery background

Closed27 November 2007

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MORITZ MICHAEL DAFFINGER (AUSTRIAN, 1790-1849)
Prince Innocent Odescalchi (1778-1833), in black coat with velvet collar, in claret-coloured waistcoat and black cravat; crimson drapery background
oil on ivory
rectangular, 5¼ x 4 in. (134 x 102 mm.); gilt-wood frame with
glazed reverse

Princess Johanna Odescalchi-d'Orsay (1846-1936), Vienna, in 1905.
Dr. Victor and Paula Zuckerkandl Collection, Berlin; (+), C. J. Wawra, Vienna, 7-8 May 1928, lot 70.

Specialist note

Innocent Odescalchi, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, Duke of Syrmia and Ceri, was the son of Livio, Prince Odescalchi, Duke of Syrmia [Sirmio], Duke of Bracciano, Duke of Ceri and his wife Maria Vittoria Corsini. He married first, on 10 February 1801, Anna Luisa Countess Keglevich von Buzin (+ 13 March 1813), and secondly, on 13 March 1831, Henriette Countess Zichy-Ferraris zu Zich and Vasonykeö (1800-1852 Vienna). The pair to the present miniature, depicting his second wife, was lot 71 of the Zuckerkandl sale in 1928 and has been published in C. Krisai-Chizzola, 'Dokumentationsraster [...] von Porträtminiaturen auf Elfenbein', in Restauratorenblätter 21. Mirabilia und Curiosa, Vienna, 2000, pp. 33-43.