MORITZ MICHAEL DAFFINGER (AUSTRIAN, 1790-1849)

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MORITZ MICHAEL DAFFINGER (AUSTRIAN, 1790-1849)
Count Paul Pálffy of Erdöd (1827-1866), as a boy, in blue coat with black collar, white waistcoat, white shirt, black knotted cravat; landscape and sky background
signed 'Daffinger' (mid-right)
on ivory
rectangular, 3½ x 2 13/16 in. (89 x 72 mm.), gilt-metal easel frame with foliate corners

Literature

H. Fuchs, Die Österreichische Bildnisminiatur, Vienna, 1982, I, illustrated in colour p. 128, pl. 13.

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Lot Essay

The sitter was the elder son of Count Nicholas Pálffy and his wife Therese Countess Rossi. He married Geraldine Countess Károly of Nagy-Károly in 1855. They had five daughers and two sons, including Fürst Nicholas Pálffy. Three other miniatures depicting Count Paul were in the Fürst Pálffy Estate, sold Dorotheum, Vienna, 18 October 2005, lots 9, 35 and 43.

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