German School, late 19th Century
The painter Vogel von Vogelstein as a child, facing left in blue coat with green lapels, open white shirt, long curling fair hair
on porcelain, pierced and engraved gilt-metal frame
oval, 4.7/8 in. (124 mm.) high
Lot Essay
Vogel von Vogelstein was a famous Saxon court painter. This miniature is a detail taken from the large oil painting in the Gemäldegalerie, Dresden.