Live Auction 5962Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
HEINRICH FRIEDRICH FÜGER (AUSTRO-GERMAN, 1751-1818)
Lot 242

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

Closed28 November 2012

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GBP 6,250

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HEINRICH FRIEDRICH FÜGER (AUSTRO-GERMAN, 1751-1818)
Ursula Kaczkowska, in white dress with lilac sash, pale blue shawl draped around her shoulders, white ribbon in her long powdered curling hair; leaning on a stone plinth with a bouquet of white and red roses, her right hand raised to her chin, the side of the plinth carved with a classical figure; landscape and trellis background
on card
oval, 7 in. (177 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount within rectangular gilt-metal frame with brown velvet slip

Simon Ritter von Metaxa Collection, Vienna.
Paul A. Scholz Collection, Berlin; Lempertz, Cologne, 24 November 1976, lot 40.

Specialist note

The sitter in the present miniature, whose traditional identification has been that of Countess Clam, has recently been identified as Ursula Kaczkowska, first wife of Polish artist Wincenty de Lesseur-Lesserowitcz (see lot 222). The sitter was an actress in the Krakow ballet.
We are indebted to Dr Izabella Wierzinska, Curator of Miniatures at the National Museum of Warsaw for bringing the true identity of the sitter to our attention.