Live Auction 5962Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
WINCENTY DE LESSEUR-LESSEROWITCZ (POLISH, 1745/46-1813), AFTER MARCELLO BACCIARELLI (ITALIAN, 1731-1818)
Lot 222

WINCENTY DE LESSEUR-LESSEROWITCZ (POLISH, 1745/46-1813), AFTER MARCELLO BACCIARELLI (ITALIAN, 1731-1818)

Closed28 November 2012

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WINCENTY DE LESSEUR-LESSEROWITCZ (POLISH, 1745/46-1813), AFTER MARCELLO BACCIARELLI (ITALIAN, 1731-1818)
Stanislas II Augustus Poniatowski (1732-1798), King of Poland 1764-1795, in fur-bordered blue robe, frilled shirt, seated at a desk, his right hand on an hour glass next to a crown, his left on a document inscribed 'Qua sivit Coelo /Lucem' on the desk engraved 'Stanislaus Augustus Rex Po.. M. Dux Lith. MDCCLXXXXIIII', globe, red curtain and sky background
signed with initials and dated 'W. L 1798' (lower left)
on ivory
rectangular, 4¼ x 3½ in. (105 x 88 mm.), ormolu frame with coronet and cypher surmount
the reverse of the frame is stamped 36.

John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) Collection, New York; Christie's, London, 24 June 1935, lot 488 (as by Wilhelm Chodowiecki, 36 gns to Frank Partridge).
Christie's, London, 29 November 1977, lot 102 (£700).

Specialist note

This miniature is taken after the portrait of Stanislas II Augustus Poniatowski of 1793 by Marcello Bacciarelli now in the National Museum in Warsaw. Another version of this miniature by Wincenty de Lesseur-Lesserowicz is in H. Kaminska-Krassowska, Miniatury Wincentego Lesseura I Walerii Tarnowsky z dawnej kolekcji Tarnowski z Dzikowa w zbiorach Museum Polskiego w Rapperwilu, Warsaw, 1994, p. 41, no. 1, illustrated in colour pl. 1.
For a portrait of the artist's first wife, Ursula Kaczkowska, by Heinrich Friedrich Füger, see lot 242.