MORITZ MICHAEL DAFFINGER (AUSTRIAN, 1790-1849)

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MORITZ MICHAEL DAFFINGER (AUSTRIAN, 1790-1849)
A lady, formerly called The Countess Perera (Pereira), in white dress, reclining on a chaise longue draped with yellow Cashmere shawl, her right elbow resting on a green pillow, her long dark hair falling over her chest; grey curtain background
signed 'Daffinger.' (lower left)
on card
rectangular, 5 11/16 x 8¼ in. (144 x 210 mm.), gilt-metal frame

Provenance

Ernst Holzscheiter Collection, Meilen; part I, Sotheby's, London, 28 March, 1977, lot 167.

Literature

L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, II, p. 938, no. 278, III, pl. 150.

Exhibited

Geneva, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Chefs-d'oeuvre de la miniature et de la gouache, 1956, no. 120 (lent by Ernst Holzscheiter).
Albertina, Vienna, Meisterwerke der europäischen Miniaturmalerei von 1750 bis 1850, 1965, no. 65 (lent by Ernst Holzscheiter).
London, Royal Academy and Victoria and Albert Museum, The age of Neo-Classicism, the fourteenth exhibition of the Council of Europe, 1972, no. 971 (as the Countess Perera, on vellum, lent 'from the Holzscheiter Collection').

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Lot Essay

According to the 1972 Neo-Classicism exhibition, 'exhaustive research into Spanish, Portuguese and Brazilian families shows that there was no such title in the Pereira family at the time of the Congress of Vienna. The famous Portuguese family of Pereira was extinct by this time, and it seems not unlikely that this Hispanic beauty may have been using an assumed name and title. This leads one to speculate that she might have been a well known courtesan'.

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