ROBERT THEER (AUSTRIAN, 1808-1863)

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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF ERNST ADOLF TITGEMEYER

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ROBERT THEER (AUSTRIAN, 1808-1863)
Archduchess Marie Karoline of Austria (1825-1915), in white dress and fur-lined blue coat, five strands of pearls, pearl brooch and pearl drop-earrings, upswept centre-parted hair
on ivory
oval, 3 5/8 in. (92 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame within rectangular leather travelling case

Provenance

Archduke Rainer Ferdinand of Austria, the sitter's husband, in 1905 and 1907.
Dorotheum, Vienna, 6 June 1961, lot 215.

Literature

E. Leisching, Die Bildnis-Miniatur in Österreich von 1650 bis 1850, Vienna, 1907, pp. 171 and 253, no. 208, illustrated pl. XLIX, no. 4.

Exhibited

Vienna, Palais des k. k. Ministerrats-Präsidiums, Miniaturen-Ausstellung, 1905, no. 797 (lent by TIRH Archduke Rainer and Archduchess Marie of Austria).

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Lot Essay

Marie Karoline was the daughter of Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen. She married, in 1852, her cousin Archduke Rainer Ferdinand of Austria (1827-1913) but had no issue.
According to Leisching and the 1905 exhibition catalogue (supra), the present miniature depicts the sitter as a bride, suggesting that it was painted in 1852.

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