Heinrich Friedrich Füger (Austro-German, 1751-1818)

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Heinrich Friedrich Füger (Austro-German, 1751-1818)
Count, later Prince, Philipp von der Leyen und zu Hohengeroldseck, (1766-1829), in red coat
On ivory
81 mm. diam, ormolu frame, inscribed on the reverse ‘Fürst Leyn’, and inscribed on a piece of card inside the frame ‘Fürst Philipp / von der Leyen […] Hohengeroldseck / gest. Juni 1829’

Provenance

With Leo R. Schidlof, from whom acquired by Ernst Holzscheiter in Paris, 18 February 1934 (inv. nos. MD/0036 and 228).

Literature

Keil 2009, p. 237, no. WV129, illustrated.

Exhibited

Zurich 1955, no. 371.
Geneva 1956, no. 170.
Zurich 1957-58 and 1961.
Vienna 1965, no. 150.

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Lot Essay

The sitter was a nephew of Karl Theodor von Dalberg, Prince-Primate of the Confederation of the Rhine. When the Confederation of the Rhine was established on 12 July 1806, the County of Hohengeroldseck was elevated to a Principality and the sitter became Fürst (Prince) von der Leyen und zu Hohengeroldseck. In 1813 the Confederation was dissolved and from 30 May 1814 the Principality of Leyen was under Allied administration. By the Congress of Vienna it was handed to Austria, but was sold to the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1819. He retained the title of Fürst, despite Hohengeroldseck having lost its Principality status.

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