Live Auction 1126Centuries of Style
HEINRICH FRIEDRICH FÜGER (AUSTRO-GERMAN, 1751-1818)
Lot 122

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

Closed4 June 2013

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GBP 17,500

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HEINRICH FRIEDRICH FÜGER (AUSTRO-GERMAN, 1751-1818)
Countess Mária Anna Esterházy de Galántha, née Pálffy de Erdöd (1747-1799), seated in a landscape, in red and gold shot-silk dress with white upstand lace collar and cuffs, gauze veil draped over her right shoulder and white shawl draped over plinth on which her left hand and right arm rests, her powdered hair dressed with black ostrich plumes, wearing a gold locket on a chain around her neck; foliate background
signed and dated 'Füger. p. 1786.' (lower left)
on ivory
oval, 6½ in. (165 mm.) high, ormolu easel-stand frame with inner beaded border

Countess Moritz Esterházy, née Countess Paula Stockau (1858-1937), Vienna, in 1905.

Specialist note

The husband of Countess Paula Esterházy, who owned the miniatures in 1905 when Laban published his monograph on Füger, was Count Moritz II Esterházy, a great-grandson of the present sitter and her spouse Count Johann Esterházy, who is depicted in the previous lot.