Lot Essay
Michael Auer worked at the Vienna factory from 1783 until his death in 1804.
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1800, SIGNED AND DATED
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A Vienna circular documentary portrait plaque
1800, signed and dated
Painted by Michael Auer, with a young lady seated on an Empire lit d'alcove with winged female supports, wearing a purple dress and with her right breast revealed, holding a sheet of writing paper in her right hand, the top of the page inscribed Hatie co (?) 1800, a harp behind her (probably cut down from a larger object) in a contemporary giltwood frame
2¾ in. (6.8 cm.) diam.
1800, signed and dated
Painted by Michael Auer, with a young lady seated on an Empire lit d'alcove with winged female supports, wearing a purple dress and with her right breast revealed, holding a sheet of writing paper in her right hand, the top of the page inscribed Hatie co (?) 1800, a harp behind her (probably cut down from a larger object) in a contemporary giltwood frame
2¾ in. (6.8 cm.) diam.
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