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HEINRICH FRIEDRICH FÜGER (AUSTRO-GERMAN, 1751-1818)
A gentleman, in red velvet coat with black collar, white cravat and powdered hair en queue; foliate and sky background
3 5/16 in. (84 mm.) diam., gilt-metal mount
A gentleman, in red velvet coat with black collar, white cravat and powdered hair en queue; foliate and sky background
3 5/16 in. (84 mm.) diam., gilt-metal mount
Provenance
Josef von Flesch (1871-1928) Collection, Vienna; C. J. Wawra, Vienna, 12-13 May 1930, lot 29.
Lempertz, Cologne, 29 March 1950, lot 147.
Günther Muthmann Collection, Wuppertal-Barmen; part II, Sotheby's, Zurich, 13 November 1979, lot 51.
Lempertz, Cologne, 29 March 1950, lot 147.
Günther Muthmann Collection, Wuppertal-Barmen; part II, Sotheby's, Zurich, 13 November 1979, lot 51.
Literature
E. Lemberger, Portrait Miniatures of Five Centuries, London, [n.d.], pl. 11.
E. Lemberger, Meisterminiaturen aus fünf Jahrhunderten, Stuttgart, 1911, illustrated in colour pl. 11.
C. Jeannerat, 'L'Exposition internationale de miniatures à Vienne', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1924, II, illustrated p. 359.
R. Keil, Heinrich Friedrich Füger 1751-1818, illustrated p. 237, no. 130.
E. Lemberger, Meisterminiaturen aus fünf Jahrhunderten, Stuttgart, 1911, illustrated in colour pl. 11.
C. Jeannerat, 'L'Exposition internationale de miniatures à Vienne', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1924, II, illustrated p. 359.
R. Keil, Heinrich Friedrich Füger 1751-1818, illustrated p. 237, no. 130.
Exhibited
Rome, Miniatures Exhibition, 1911.
Vienna, Albertina, Internationale Miniaturen-Austellung in der Albertina Wien, 1924, no. 365, illustrated pl. XII (lent by Josef Flesch).
Vienna, Albertina, Internationale Miniaturen-Austellung in der Albertina Wien, 1924, no. 365, illustrated pl. XII (lent by Josef Flesch).
Special notice
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