Lot Essay
C. Parisio, loc. cit., suggests that the sitter in the present portrait may be a ballerina or an actress.
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FERDINANDO QUAGLIA (ITALIAN, 1780-1853)
A young lady, traditionally called Josephine de Beauharnais (1763-1814), Empress of the French and Queen of Italy, in gold-trimmed white dress with striped sash around waist and corresponding turban, a fine gauze shawl draped over her left shoulder
Signed ‘Quaglia’ (lower right)
On ivory
Oval, 83 mm. high, rectangular gilt-metal frame with foliate and star border and star spandrels in the corners
A young lady, traditionally called Josephine de Beauharnais (1763-1814), Empress of the French and Queen of Italy, in gold-trimmed white dress with striped sash around waist and corresponding turban, a fine gauze shawl draped over her left shoulder
Signed ‘Quaglia’ (lower right)
On ivory
Oval, 83 mm. high, rectangular gilt-metal frame with foliate and star border and star spandrels in the corners
Provenance
Bäuml Collection, Vienna.
Dr Leopold Paur, Freiburg im Breisgau (by 1956); Lempertz, Cologne, 3 December 1968, lot 1512.
Sotheby’s, London, 6 March 1997, lot 25.
Dr Leopold Paur, Freiburg im Breisgau (by 1956); Lempertz, Cologne, 3 December 1968, lot 1512.
Sotheby’s, London, 6 March 1997, lot 25.
Literature
L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, II, p. 657 (as ‘could well be Joséphine Bonaparte’).
C. Parisio, Ferdinando Quaglia 1780-1853, da Piacenza a Parigi, Brescia, 2012, p. 23, no. 8, illustrated, p. 52, pl. IV, no. 8, illustrated in colour.
C. Parisio, Ferdinando Quaglia 1780-1853, da Piacenza a Parigi, Brescia, 2012, p. 23, no. 8, illustrated, p. 52, pl. IV, no. 8, illustrated in colour.
Exhibited
Vienna, Albertina, Internationale Miniaturen-Ausstellung in der Albertina Wien, 1924, no. 693, illustrated pl. VIII of the exhibition catalogue (as a portrait of a lady, probably Empress Josephine. Lent by a private collector).
Freiburg, Augustiner-Museum, Europäische Bildnis-Miniaturen, 1956, no. 221 (lent by Dr L. Paur, Freiburg).
Freiburg, Augustiner-Museum, Europäische Bildnis-Miniaturen, 1956, no. 221 (lent by Dr L. Paur, Freiburg).
Special notice
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