CORNELIUS HÖYER, circa 1775

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CORNELIUS HÖYER, circa 1775

Margaretha-Amalia Meyer née Bausch seated on a green-upholstered chair at a table with books and a marble vase, holding a bouquet of flowers tied with a blue ribbon in her hands, her upswept powdered hair adorned with red flowers and a long white muslin veil falling on her left shoulder, wearing a pink silk dress with bows, white lace sleeves and a white muslin fichu -- 56 mm diam., well restored hairline-crack, gold frame with guilloché border and ribbon-tie surmount, plain gilt-metal reverse.

Literature

Torben Holck Colding, Cornelius Höyer, Copenhagen, 1961, nr 126, ill. fig. 65.

Lot Essay

Margaretha-Amalia Bausch (1754-1806) was married in 1771 to the wine-dealer and Senator Johann-Valentin Meyer of Hamburg. Torben Holck Colding dates this miniature of autumn 1772, from the period when Höyer worked in Schleswig-Holstein and Northern Germany. Colding erroneously indicates this miniature as being located in Hamburg, in the Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, inv. nr 1955/122 to which it was indeed announced but finally it never arrived as it was sold to an ancestor of the present owner (information kindly supplied by Dr. Gisela Jaacks, Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte).

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