JEREMIA DAVID ALEXANDER FIORINO (GERMAN, 1797-1847)

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JEREMIA DAVID ALEXANDER FIORINO (GERMAN, 1797-1847)

Anton (1755-1836), King of Saxony 1827-1836, in red coat with gold facings and gold-embroidered collar, silver epaulettes, wearing the green sash of the Royal Saxon Order of the Rue Crown and the jewel of the Order of the Golden Fleece
Signed and indistinctly dated 'Fiorino [...]' (mid-right)
On ivory
Oval, 43 mm. high, silver frame with a later pierced diamond and ruby-set surround

Provenance

Gustav Klemperer Edler von Klemenau (1852-1926) Collection, Dresden.
Frau Geheimrat Charlotte von Klemperer, née Engelmann (1857-1934), Dresden.
Lempertz, Cologne, 23 March 1991, lot 49 (11,000 DM).

Literature

H. Buchheit, Miniaturen aus der Sammlung Gustav von Klemperer, Dresden, 1928, pp. 15, 39, no. 67, illustrated pl. 9, no. 67 (the signature and date as "Fiorino 19(?)", the stones as rhinestones).
S. Henle, 'Adel und Mopsorden', Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 30 March 1991, no. 75, p. 33.
Weltkunst, 1 June 1991, p. 1672, no. 11.
'Das Preisbild. Folge 380: Porträt-Miniaturen', Antiquitäten-Zeitung, 1991, illustrated p. 256, no. 8.

Special notice

Prospective purchasers are advised that several countries prohibit the importation of property containing materials from endangered species, including but not limited to coral, ivory and tortoiseshell. Accordingly, prospective purchasers should familiarize themselves with relevant customs regulations prior to bidding if they intend to import this lot into another country. Items which contain rubies or jadeite originating in Burma (Myanmar) may not be imported into the U.S. Please be advised that a purchasers inability to import any such item into the U.S. or any other country shall not constitute grounds for non-payment or cancellation of the sale. With respect to items that contain any other types of gemstones originating in Burma (e.g., sapphires), such items may be imported into the U.S., provided that the gemstones have been mounted or incorporated into jewellery outside of Burma and provided that the setting is not of a temporary nature (e.g., a string).

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Lot Essay

The sitter was the fifth but third surviving son of Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony, and Maria Antonia of Bavaria. He succeeded his brother Frederick Augustus I as Elector in 1827, at the age of 71. In 1782, he married Princess Caroline of Savoy, but she died after one year of marriage. In 1787, he married Archduchess Maria Theresia of Austria. None of their four children survived infancy. He was succeeded by his nephew, Frederick Augustus II.
The present miniature is after a large-scale oil on canvas portrait by Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein, painted in 1827, and now in the Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden, Gal.-Nr. 3340. Another very similar signed miniature by Fiorino is in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden, Gal.-Nr. M 199 A.

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