ERIC UTTERHIELM (SWEDISH, 1662-1717)

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ERIC UTTERHIELM (SWEDISH, 1662-1717)
Hedvig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp (1636-1715), Queen of Sweden, in gold-embroidered dress with drop-pearl and gem-set brooch at corsage, ermine-bordered blue dress, pearls in her upswept hair
enamel on copper
oval, 2¼ in. (57 mm.) high, gold frame

Provenance

Sotheby's, Zurich, 6 May 1980, lot 165.

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Lot Essay

Eric Utterhielm was the sitter's valet as well as her portrait painter. For another enamel (cracked) of Queen Hedvig Eleonora of Sweden by the same artist, see M. Olausson and J. Sjöholm, Nationalmuseum Stockholm. Illustrerad katalog över svenska och övriga nordiska miniatyrer, Halmstad, 2001, II, illustrated p. 116.

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