MORITZ MICHAEL DAFFINGER (AUSTRIAN, 1790-1849)

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MORITZ MICHAEL DAFFINGER (AUSTRIAN, 1790-1849)
A lady called Countess Henrietta Hunyady née Princess of Liechtenstein (1806-1886) in white off-the-shoulder dress with brown buckled belt, her brown hair in a bun and ringlets; sky and foliate background
on ivory
oval, 2.15/16 in. (75 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount set in a rectangular velvet easel-stand mount, in a dark brown leather folding case stamped 'T. 1872 / [coroneted] WR'

Provenance

Sotheby's, London, 6 March 1997, lot 27.
The Albion Collection; Bonhams, London, 22 April 2004, lot 151.

Exhibited

Bath, The Holbourne Museum and Edinburgh, Phillips Auctioneers, Secret Passion to Noble Fashion. The World of the Portrait Miniature, 1999, no. 100 (lent by a private collector).
Edinburgh, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, The Albion Loan Collection, 2000-2003.

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Lot Essay

Another portrait of Countess Henrietta Hunyady by Daffinger is illustrated in L. Grünstein, Moritz Michael Daffinger und sein Kreis, Leipzig, 1923, pl. XI, and another example was sold Sotheby's, Geneva, 11 May 1989, lot 33.

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