Princess Clementina Metternich as Hebe, full face in loose white dress with yellow sash secured by a strand of pearls and drop pearl pendant at corsage, her dark brown hair curled and upswept

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MORITZ MICHAEL DAFFINGER (1790-1849), AFTER SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE (1769-1830)
Princess Clementina Metternich as Hebe, full face in loose white dress with yellow sash secured by a strand of pearls and drop pearl pendant at corsage, her dark brown hair curled and upswept
signed 'Daffinger' (mid-right)
oval, 2 15/16 in. (74 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount within rectangular mount

Provenance

Baroness Almérie von Levetzow-Salis (in 1905 and 1907).

Literature

E. Leisching, Die Bildnis-Miniatur in Oesterreich, Vienna, 1907, illustrated opp. p. 132, pl. XXXVI, no. 3, p. 242, no. 89).
E. Pirchan, Moritz Michael Daffinger, Vienna, Leipzig, 1943, illustrated pl. 54 (erroneoulsy as belonging to the Albertina).

Exhibited

Vienna, Palais des k. k. Ministerrats-Präsidiums, Miniaturen-Ausstellung, 1905, no. 1946 (lent by Baroness Almérie von Levetzow-Salis).

Lot Essay

Princess Clementina Metternich (1804-1820) was the second daughter of Prince Metternich (see lot 191) and his first wife Maria Eleonora, née Kaunitz.
Sir Thomas Lawrence visited Vienna in 1819 and his visit was to change Daffinger's artistic style completely. Daffinger began to copy Lawrence's work in miniature as can be seen in the present miniature taken after the oil portrait of Princess Clementina painted in Vienna 1818-19 (K. Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Oxford, 1989, no. 559, illustrated p. 237). Another version of this miniature was sold in these rooms, 10 July 1991, lot 53.

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