Lot Essay
Rosa von Wertheimstein descended from a renowned and wealthy Viennese family and her husband August Blhdorn (Oberndorf, Silesia 1805-1859 Vienna) was a well-to-do factory owner and lawyer.
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A fine miniature of Rosa von Wertheimstein, later Mrs August Blhdorn, facing left in off-the-shoulder white muslin dress with short bouffant sleeves, a fur boa about her right shoulder, a drop pearl set emerald brooch at her corsage, gold-embroidered green belt, her centre-parted brown hair dressed in an Apollo-knot; sunset landscape background
Details
MORITZ MICHAEL DAFFINGER (1790-1849)
A fine miniature of Rosa von Wertheimstein, later Mrs August Blhdorn, facing left in off-the-shoulder white muslin dress with short bouffant sleeves, a fur boa about her right shoulder, a drop pearl set emerald brooch at her corsage, gold-embroidered green belt, her centre-parted brown hair dressed in an Apollo-knot; sunset landscape background
signed 'Daffinger' (lower right)
oval, 3 in. (89 mm.) high, stamped gilt-metal frame with floral border and pierced ribbon-tie surmount
A fine miniature of Rosa von Wertheimstein, later Mrs August Blhdorn, facing left in off-the-shoulder white muslin dress with short bouffant sleeves, a fur boa about her right shoulder, a drop pearl set emerald brooch at her corsage, gold-embroidered green belt, her centre-parted brown hair dressed in an Apollo-knot; sunset landscape background
signed 'Daffinger' (lower right)
oval, 3 in. (89 mm.) high, stamped gilt-metal frame with floral border and pierced ribbon-tie surmount
Provenance
Baronne Antoine-Scipion du Roure, ne Mathilde Blhdorn, daughter of the sitter.
Anne du Roure, daughter of the latter.
Thence by family descent to the present owner.
Anne du Roure, daughter of the latter.
Thence by family descent to the present owner.