拍品 84
84
JOSEPH GRASSI (C. 1758-1838)
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JOSEPH GRASSI (C. 1758-1838)

Holy Roman Empress Maria Ludovica (1745-1792) holding a letter addressed to her brother Charles, facing left in white satin dress with ruffled neckline and long sleeves, jewel-set armlet and light blue jewelled belt, jewel-set gold headdress with falling white veil in her long powdered curling hair, seated in a blue upholstered chair, her hands resting on a table covered with pale blue cloth; pale blue curtain background

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JOSEPH GRASSI (C. 1758-1838)
Holy Roman Empress Maria Ludovica (1745-1792) holding a letter addressed to her brother Charles, facing left in white satin dress with ruffled neckline and long sleeves, jewel-set armlet and light blue jewelled belt, jewel-set gold headdress with falling white veil in her long powdered curling hair, seated in a blue upholstered chair, her hands resting on a table covered with pale blue cloth; pale blue curtain background
oval, 2 7/8 in. (72 mm.) high, ormolu frame, the backing paper inscribed '[...] de feue [Impéra]trice Louise fait en 1792'
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拍品专文

Maria Ludovica (or Marie Louise) of Bourbon, daughter of King Charles III of Spain and Princess Anna Amalia of Saxony, was married to the Grand Duke Peter Leopold of Tuscany, future Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II, in 1765. Among their sixteen children, born between 1767 and 1788 was Francis, who succeeded his father as Holy Roman Emperor in 1792. In a diary notice of 1779, Count Zinzendorf remarked on her beautiful satin morning gown 'which she really needed as she was quite ugly and oldish'. She tolerated her husband's numerous extra-marital affairs and became quite friendly with his mistress the dancer Livia Raimondi.
This miniature is after Grassi's oil painting of the Empress signed and dated 1790, now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, illustrated in Katalog der Gemäldegalerie. Porträtgalerie zur Geschichte Österreichs von 1400 bis 1800, Vienna, 1982, no. 270, pl. 254. The catalogue specifies that the Empress is holding a letter to her brother King Charles IV of Spain, as in the present miniature.