Queen Pauline of Württemberg (1800-1873), in white dress with diaphanous sleeves, pink sash, drop earrings, pearl necklace worn in her dark hair dressed in an Apollo knot with pink rose and foliage

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ATTRIBUTED TO JOHANN GEORG ADAM GOTTLOB GUTEKUNST (1801-1858), CIRCA 1832
Queen Pauline of Württemberg (1800-1873), in white dress with diaphanous sleeves, pink sash, drop earrings, pearl necklace worn in her dark hair dressed in an Apollo knot with pink rose and foliage
watercolour on card
rectangular, 8 3/8 x 6¾ in. (214 x 173 mm.), ormolu mount with inner beaded border, in tooled leather case with coronet

Provenance

Given by the sitter to the Hon. Robert Kennedy in 1832.
Private Collection, Munich.
Bonhams, London, 21 November 1995, lot 46.

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Lot Essay

A signed lithograph by Gutekunst of this portrait is in the Württembergisches Landesmuseum, Stuttgart.
Queen Pauline, third wife of King William (see preceding lot) from 1820, was the daughter of Duke Ludwig of Württemberg.

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