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Baroness Amelie Stuers was the wife of the Dutch ambassador in Vienna.
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MORITZ MICHAEL DAFFINGER (AUSTRIAN, 1790-1849)
Baroness Amelie Stuers, seated on red upholstered chair, in white dress, red Cashmere shawl draped over her arms, wearing a gold crucifix around her neck suspended from a black choker, dark hair dressed in ringlets; green curtain and foliate landscape background
signed 'Daffinger' (mid-right)
on ivory
rectangular, 4¾ x 3 7/8 in. (120 x 98 mm.), ormolu easel stand frame with foliate surround
Baroness Amelie Stuers, seated on red upholstered chair, in white dress, red Cashmere shawl draped over her arms, wearing a gold crucifix around her neck suspended from a black choker, dark hair dressed in ringlets; green curtain and foliate landscape background
signed 'Daffinger' (mid-right)
on ivory
rectangular, 4¾ x 3 7/8 in. (120 x 98 mm.), ormolu easel stand frame with foliate surround
Provenance
Wawra, Vienna, May 1912, lot 235.
Baron Hans Reitzes von Marienwert Collection, Vienna.
Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 8 May 1947, lot 439.
Ernst Holzscheiter Collection, Meilen, inv. no. MD/173; part I, Sotheby's, London, 28 March, 1977, lot 166.
Baron Hans Reitzes von Marienwert Collection, Vienna.
Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 8 May 1947, lot 439.
Ernst Holzscheiter Collection, Meilen, inv. no. MD/173; part I, Sotheby's, London, 28 March, 1977, lot 166.
Literature
L. Grünstein, Moritz Michael Daffinger und sein Kreis, Vienna and Leipzig, 1923, p. 133.
C. Jeannerat, 'L'Exposition internationale de miniatures à Vienne', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1924, II, illustrated p. 360.
C. Jeannerat, 'L'Exposition internationale de miniatures à Vienne', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1924, II, illustrated p. 360.
Exhibited
Vienna, Albertina, Internationale Miniaturen-Austellung in der Albertina, Wien, 1924, no. 205, illustrated pl. XIV (lent by Baron Hans Reitzes).
Geneva, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Chefs-d'oeuvre de la miniature et de la gouache, 1956, no. 117 (Private Collection, Zurich).
Geneva, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Chefs-d'oeuvre de la miniature et de la gouache, 1956, no. 117 (Private Collection, Zurich).
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