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MORITZ MICHAEL DAFFINGER (AUSTRIAN, 1790-1849)
Lot 181

MORITZ MICHAEL DAFFINGER (AUSTRIAN, 1790-1849)

Closed27 November 2013

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MORITZ MICHAEL DAFFINGER (AUSTRIAN, 1790-1849)
A young noblewoman, possibly Maria Leopoldina von Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein (1797-1820), in décolleté white dress with frilled sleeves, wearing gold chain set with ruby cameos across her front, seven-stranded pearl choker, ruby-set gold earrings, head band and tiara in her dark upswept hair dressed in ringlets
signed 'Daffinger' in pencil (lower right)
on ivory
oval, 3 in. (76 mm.) high, rectangular gilt-metal frame with plush surround and acanthus leaf spandrels
The backing card is a printed trade label of Imperial and Royal Court Engraver (k. k. Hofdrechsler) Joseph Rospini, St Stephansplatz no. 669, Vienna.

Albert Lindheimer (1876-1938) Collection, Frankfurt am Main, inv. no. 39 (in a partly different frame).
Ivar Kreuger Collection, Stockholm, no. 10; Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm, 16 September 1932, lot 555 (to David Hultmark).

Specialist note

Maria Leopoldina von Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein was the eldest daughter of Fürst Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar von Metternich (1773-1859) and his first wife, Countess Eleonore von Kaunitz. On 15 September 1817, she married Joseph Esterházy von Galántha (1791-1847). She died three years later from tuberculosis.