Live Auction 5962Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
AFTER JOSEF KARL STIELER (GERMAN, 1781-1858)
Lot 357 PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF ERNST ADOLF TITGEMEYER

AFTER JOSEF KARL STIELER (GERMAN, 1781-1858)

Closed28 November 2012

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GBP 1,062

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AFTER JOSEF KARL STIELER (GERMAN, 1781-1858)
Princess Alexandra of Bavaria (1826-1875), in white off-the-shoulders dress, her brown hair dressed in ringlets and decorated with ivy
enamel on copper
oval, 3 in. (78 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame with stamped foliate surround

Alfred von Strasser-Sánczi Collection, Vienna, in 1905, 1906 and 1931.
Dr Dietisheim, Ascona.

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Princess Alexandra of Bavaria, the eighth child and fifth daughter of King Ludwig I of Bavaria (see lot 235), never married, and was appointed abbess of the Royal Chapter for Ladies of Saint Anne in Munich and Würzburg, a religious community specifically for noble ladies. Notwithstanding certain literary accomplishments, Alexandra suffered from several psychological eccentricities, including a fixation with cleanliness. She only used to wear white clothes, as in the present portrait which is a copy after Josef Karl Stieler's oil painting of 1845 now at Nymphenburg Castle, Munich, part of King Ludwig's Gallery of Beauties.