Live Auction 5962Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
MORITZ MICHAEL DAFFINGER (AUSTRIAN, 1790-1849)
Lot 243

MORITZ MICHAEL DAFFINGER (AUSTRIAN, 1790-1849)

Closed28 November 2012

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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

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

Specialist note

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'.