Live Auction 1162Centuries of Style, Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
HEINRICH FRIEDRICH FÜGER (AUSTRO-GERMAN, 1751-1818)
Lot 194

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

Closed27 November 2013

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GBP 74,500

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HEINRICH FRIEDRICH FÜGER (AUSTRO-GERMAN, 1751-1818)
Leopold II (1747-1792), Holy Roman Emperor, in olive green coat, ermine-trimmed cloak, wearing the ribbon of the Order of the Golden Fleece, the sash and breast-star of the Imperial Austrian Order of Maria Theresa and other sashes and a breast-star, powdered hair
on ivory
oval, 6½ in. (157 mm.) high, rectangular gilt-wood frame with applied foliate spandrels

Herr von Friedland Collection, Vienna, by 1877/1880.
Moriz Mayr (1841-1898) Collection, Vienna.
His wife Therese Mayr, Vienna, by 1905/1926; sale 'Miniaturensammlung Moriz Mayr'; C. J. Wawra, Vienna, 16 May 1927, lot 44.

Specialist note

The sitter was the second son of Emperor Francis I and Empress Maria Theresa (see the next lot), and as such was a brother of Queen Marie-Antoinette of France. In 1764, he married the Infanta Maria Luisa of Spain, with whom he had sixteen children, including the future Emperor Francis I of Austria and Archduke Charles (see the previous lot).