ADALBERT SUCHY (1783-1849)
ADALBERT SUCHY (1783-1849)

Count Esterhzy, Captain of the Hungarian Guard, facing right in fur-bordered scarlet coat with elaborate silver lacing, green shoulder belt and embossed silver badge, white shirt and black stock

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ADALBERT SUCHY (1783-1849)
Count Esterhzy, Captain of the Hungarian Guard, facing right in fur-bordered scarlet coat with elaborate silver lacing, green shoulder belt and embossed silver badge, white shirt and black stock
signed 'Suchy' (lower right)
oval, 3.1/8 in. (79 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount
Provenance
Count Breza, Dresden.
with Pisko, Vienna.
Dr Albert Figdor, Vienna, no. F3323 (in 1905 and 1907).
Gnther Muthmann, Wuppertal; Sotheby's, Zurich, 13 November 1979, lot 139 (SF 8,000).
Literature
E. Leisching, Die Bildnis-Miniatur in sterreich, Vienna, 1907, pp. 195, 252 no. 196, illustrated pl. XXVI, no. 2.
L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, II, pp. 794 (described as "typical"), 1050, illustrated IV, pl. 562, no. 1145.
Exhibited
Vienna, Ministerrats-Prsidium, Miniaturen-Ausstellung, 1905, no. 1325 (lent by Dr Albert Figdor, Vienna).

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