Details
EMANUEL-THOMAS PETER, signed, after Daffinger, circa 1830
A young lady called Princess Liechtenstein wearing a low-cut striped mauve dress with long bouffant sleeves and a pearl necklace, her centre-parted brown hair dressed in rolls and adorned with pink flowers and a flowing gauze scarf knotted under her chin; oval -- 75 mm high, gilt-metal mount on a red plush panel within a fine rectangular Viennese gilt-bronze frame with foliate corners.
Provenance
Sale Hervorragende Miniaturensammlung, Leo Schidlof's Kunstauktionshaus, Vienna, 6-7 June 1921, lot 185, illustr.
Literature
Nora Keil, Die Miniaturen in der Albertina Wien, Vienna, 1977, p. 105; Heinrich Fuchs, Die Österreichische Bildnisminiatur, Vienna, 1982, II, p. 42.
Exhibited
Internationale Miniaturenausstellung in der Albertina Wien, May-June 1924, nr 641; Meisterwerke der europäischen Miniaturmalerei von 1750 bis 1850, Vienna, Albertina, March-May 1965, nr 298.
