Lot Essay
The sitter married, in 1789, Count Johann Taaffe (1764-1814).
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Details
Heinrich Friedrich Füger (Austro-German, 1751-1818)
Anna, Countess Taaffe, née Harrach (1766-1850), holding a portrait miniature of a gentleman
Signed and dated ‘Füger / 1790’ (lower right)
On ivory
78 mm. diam., gilt-bronze frame, a paper label on the reverse inscribed with the sitter’s biographical details ‘Gräfin Anna Taffe, geb. Gräfin / Harrach – geb. 2 Jäner 1766, gemalt / 1780 :?: als Braut gestorb. 1850. / Taufpathin der Eleonore Wbrna. / Gattin des H[…] Jos Heller.’
Anna, Countess Taaffe, née Harrach (1766-1850), holding a portrait miniature of a gentleman
Signed and dated ‘Füger / 1790’ (lower right)
On ivory
78 mm. diam., gilt-bronze frame, a paper label on the reverse inscribed with the sitter’s biographical details ‘Gräfin Anna Taffe, geb. Gräfin / Harrach – geb. 2 Jäner 1766, gemalt / 1780 :?: als Braut gestorb. 1850. / Taufpathin der Eleonore Wbrna. / Gattin des H[…] Jos Heller.’
Provenance
Baron Hans Reitzes von Marienwert (1877-1935) Collection, Vienna, by 1924; (†) Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 8 May 1947, lot 461.
Ernst Holzscheiter Collection, Meilen (inv. nos. MD/0398 and 235).
Ernst Holzscheiter Collection, Meilen (inv. nos. MD/0398 and 235).
Literature
Jeannerat 1924, illustrated p. 358.
Stix 1925, p. 84, no. 18, illustrated in colour plate XIV.
Rieben 1951; Werner 1951; Rieben 1952, illustrated in colour pl. XVIII.
Schidlof 1964, I, p. 275 (described as ‘excellent’).
Keil 2009, p. 235 no. WV123, illustrated in colour p. 16.
Stix 1925, p. 84, no. 18, illustrated in colour plate XIV.
Rieben 1951; Werner 1951; Rieben 1952, illustrated in colour pl. XVIII.
Schidlof 1964, I, p. 275 (described as ‘excellent’).
Keil 2009, p. 235 no. WV123, illustrated in colour p. 16.
Exhibited
Vienna 1924, no. 357, illustrated pl. XII, no. 357 (lent by Hans Freiherr von Reitzes).
Geneva 1956, no. 162.
Zurich 1957-58 and 1961.
Vienna 1965, no. 138, illustrated fig. 25.
Geneva 1956, no. 162.
Zurich 1957-58 and 1961.
Vienna 1965, no. 138, illustrated fig. 25.
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