AUSTRIAN SCHOOL, CIRCA 1730/40

Elisabeth Christine, Empress of the Holy Roman Empire, seated three-quaters length, facing right in embroidered blue dress with white lace sleeves and red-lined yellow cloak, pearls in her curly powdered hair, with pearl earrings, her left hand holding a painted oval profile portrait of her husband Emperor Charles VI; column and blue drapery with gold tassels in the background

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AUSTRIAN SCHOOL, CIRCA 1730/40
Elisabeth Christine, Empress of the Holy Roman Empire, seated three-quaters length, facing right in embroidered blue dress with white lace sleeves and red-lined yellow cloak, pearls in her curly powdered hair, with pearl earrings, her left hand holding a painted oval profile portrait of her husband Emperor Charles VI; column and blue drapery with gold tassels in the background
watercolour on parchment
rectangular, 4 1/8 x 3 1/8in. (104 x 80mm.), gilt-wood frame

Lot Essay

Elisabeth Christine of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1691-1750), was married to the future Holy Roman Emperor Emperor Charles VI (1685-1740) in 1708. They were the parents of Empress Maria Theresia, and the grandparents of Queens Marie-Antoinette of France (see lot 45) and Maria Carolina of Naples (see lot 95).

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