Louise, Grand Duchess of Baden (1838-1923), in white silk dress with bows pinned on the bodice and sleeves, holding a white silk stole draped around her arms and waist, gold bracelet, double strand pearl necklace, wearing the badge of the Royal Prussian Order of Louise pinned to her left sleeve, white flowers and foliage in her centre parted upswept brown hair

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J. SPELTER (GERMAN, B. C. 1800)
Louise, Grand Duchess of Baden (1838-1923), in white silk dress with bows pinned on the bodice and sleeves, holding a white silk stole draped around her arms and waist, gold bracelet, double strand pearl necklace, wearing the badge of the Royal Prussian Order of Louise pinned to her left sleeve, white flowers and foliage in her centre parted upswept brown hair
signed and dated 'J. Spelter p 1857' (lower left)
on porcelain
rectangular, 7 3/8 x 6 5/16 in. (188 x 160 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount within blue velvet covered panel

Provenance

Horst Fasold; Sotheby's, Geneva, 6 May 1981, lot 68 (part lot).

Literature

M. Gabardi, 'Piccolo prezioso amore', Capital, 7, 1981, p. 173.

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Lot Essay

Princess Louise, daughter of the Prince and Princess of Prussia married Friedrich, Grand Duke of Baden (1826-1907) in 1856. The Grand Duchess devoted much time to the Red Cross which was established after the Battle of Solferino in 1859.
The exhibition catalogue Werke der Kleinporträtkunst, Mannheim, Grand-Ducal Castle, 1909, no. 658 described an identical or the present miniature lent by H. R. H. the Grand Duke Frederick II of Baden.

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