JOHANN-FRIEDRICH ARDIN (fl. c. 1700-1720)

A gentleman, facing right in gold-bordered purple cloak, gold-embroidered waistcoat and lace cravat, full bottomed powdered wig

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JOHANN-FRIEDRICH ARDIN (fl. c. 1700-1720)
A gentleman, facing right in gold-bordered purple cloak, gold-embroidered waistcoat and lace cravat, full bottomed powdered wig
signed on the counter-enamel 'ARDIN FECIT' (centre-bottom)
enamel on copper
oval, 1.7/8 in. (37 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount

Provenance

Christie's, London, 21 November 1967, lot 12.
Frederick Joachim (1904-1994).

Lot Essay

Jan Wellem (1658-1716), Elector Palatine married Maria-Anna Josepha of Habsburg in 1678 and secondly in 1691, Maria-Anna-Luisa of Medici.
For another miniature of the sitter by Ardin, see K. E. Schaffers-Bodenhausen/M. E. Tiethoff-Spliethoff, The Portrait Miniatures in the Collections of The House of Orange-Nassau, Zwolle, 1993, p. 258, illustrated no. 283.

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