HEINRICH FRIEDRICH FÜGER (AUSTRO-GERMAN, 1751-1818)

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HEINRICH FRIEDRICH FÜGER (AUSTRO-GERMAN, 1751-1818)
Archduke Joseph (1776-1847), Palatine of Hungary 1796-1847, in brown coat, black stock, powdered hair; together with a young archduke or prince, in embroidered brown coat, wearing the jewel of the Order of the Golden Fleece, lace cravat, powdered hair
on ivory
ovals, 2 ¾ in. (69 mm.); 2 3/8 in. (60 mm.) high, associated wood frame and gilt-metal mount, respectively

Provenance

The former: Baron Louis Nathaniel de Rothschild (1882–1955), Vienna, inv. no. 196.
Seized by the Nazis in 1938.
Graz, Landesmuseum Joanneum.
Transferred by the Joanneum to the Albertina, Vienna, in June 1947, as "Widmung" (Donation) Rothschild.
1947–1999: Vienna, Albertina, inv. no. 30.475.
Restituted by the Albertina to the heirs of Clarisse Adelaide and Louis Nathaniel de Rothschild in Summer 1999 ("Restitutionsbericht" 1998/1999 of 27 October 1999, p. 7, no. 9).

Literature

The former:
N. Keil, Die Miniaturen der Albertina in Wien, Vienna, 1977, p. 87, no. 139.
R. Keil, Heinrich Friedrich Füger 1751-1818, Vienna, 2009, p. 305, no. 333.

Exhibited

The former: Vienna, Albertina, Von der Gotik bis zur Gegenwart., Neuerwerbungen aus den Jahren 1947–1949, 1949/1950, no. 223, as 'Widmung' (Donation) of Baron Louis de Rothschild.

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Lot Essay

Archduke Joseph was a son of Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor and Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Infanta Maria Luisa of Spain. He married, first, the short-lived Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia, second, Princess Hermine of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym and, third, Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg. It was suggested by N. Keil (supra) that the head of the present portrait was painted by Füger and the rest was painted by his pupil Joseph Kreutzinger (1757-1829).
The second portrait in this lot possibly represents another son of Leopold II (1747-1792), Holy Roman Emperor and Grand Duke of Tuscany.

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