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Lot 465
HEINRICH FRIEDRICH FÜGER (AUSTRO-GERMAN, 1751-1818)
Closed3 June 2015
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GBP 20,000
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HEINRICH FRIEDRICH FÜGER (AUSTRO-GERMAN, 1751-1818)
Dr Andrea Perula, wearing a grey cloak with blue lining, red waistcoat, powdered hair
Signed and dated ‘Füger. p. 1783.’ (lower right)
On ivory
Oval, 115 mm. high, rectangular giltwood frame
The inscription on the wood panel on the reverse of the frame is slightly rubbed but is transcribed in A. Stix, H. F. Füger, Vienna and Leipzig, 1925, p. 83 as ‘Retratto del Sig. D. Andrea Perula di anni 52 fatto da Mr Federico Ficher [sic] Pittore Tedesco, che fece i Ritratti die Sa Ma la Regina e sua famiglia e fece la stanza dello studio, della Regina nel Real palazzo i par mi si meritò somma lode e tal son a Vienna direttore di quell Accademia con uno soldo correspondente al suo meritò. Anno 1783.’
Dr Andrea Perula, wearing a grey cloak with blue lining, red waistcoat, powdered hair
Signed and dated ‘Füger. p. 1783.’ (lower right)
On ivory
Oval, 115 mm. high, rectangular giltwood frame
The inscription on the wood panel on the reverse of the frame is slightly rubbed but is transcribed in A. Stix, H. F. Füger, Vienna and Leipzig, 1925, p. 83 as ‘Retratto del Sig. D. Andrea Perula di anni 52 fatto da Mr Federico Ficher [sic] Pittore Tedesco, che fece i Ritratti die Sa Ma la Regina e sua famiglia e fece la stanza dello studio, della Regina nel Real palazzo i par mi si meritò somma lode e tal son a Vienna direttore di quell Accademia con uno soldo correspondente al suo meritò. Anno 1783.’
HEINRICH FRIEDRICH FÜGER (AUSTRO-GERMAN, 1751-1818)
Dr Andrea Perula, wearing a grey cloak with blue lining, red waistcoat, powdered hair
Signed and dated ‘Füger. p. 1783.’ (lower right)
On ivory
Oval, 115 mm. high, rectangular giltwood frame
The inscription on the wood panel on the reverse of the frame is slightly rubbed but is transcribed in A. Stix, H. F. Füger, Vienna and Leipzig, 1925, p. 83 as ‘Retratto del Sig. D. Andrea Perula di anni 52 fatto da Mr Federico Ficher [sic] Pittore Tedesco, che fece i Ritratti die Sa Ma la Regina e sua famiglia e fece la stanza dello studio, della Regina nel Real palazzo i par mi si meritò somma lode e tal son a Vienna direttore di quell Accademia con uno soldo correspondente al suo meritò. Anno 1783.’
Dr Andrea Perula, wearing a grey cloak with blue lining, red waistcoat, powdered hair
Signed and dated ‘Füger. p. 1783.’ (lower right)
On ivory
Oval, 115 mm. high, rectangular giltwood frame
The inscription on the wood panel on the reverse of the frame is slightly rubbed but is transcribed in A. Stix, H. F. Füger, Vienna and Leipzig, 1925, p. 83 as ‘Retratto del Sig. D. Andrea Perula di anni 52 fatto da Mr Federico Ficher [sic] Pittore Tedesco, che fece i Ritratti die Sa Ma la Regina e sua famiglia e fece la stanza dello studio, della Regina nel Real palazzo i par mi si meritò somma lode e tal son a Vienna direttore di quell Accademia con uno soldo correspondente al suo meritò. Anno 1783.’
Dr Gottfried Eissler (1862-1924) Collection, Vienna; (+) Glückselig & C. J. Wawra, Vienna, Künstlerhaus, 6 May 1925, lot 83.
With Galerie C. Bednarczyk, Vienna, in 1975.
With Galerie C. Bednarczyk, Vienna, in 1975.
F. Laban, Heinrich Friedrich Füger, der Porträtminiaturist, Berlin, 1905, p. 62, no. 77.
A. Kende-Ehrenstein, Das Miniaturporträt, Vienna and Leipzig, 1908, illustrated plate 10.
E. Leisching, Die Bildnis-Miniatur in Österreich von 1750 bis 1850, Vienna, 1907, p. 82, illustrated, p. 236, no. 31.
E. Lemberger, Meisterminiaturen aus fünf Jahrhunderten, Stuttgart, 1911, p. 24, illustrated in colour pl. 10.
Velhagen & Klasings Monatshefte, September issue, 1915, p. 122.
U. Thieme (ed.), Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, vol. XIII, Leipzig, 1916, p. 554.
A. Stix, H. F. Füger, Vienna and Leipzig, 1925, p. 83, no. 16, illustrated, pl. XII.
J. de Bourgoing, Miniaturen von Heinrich Friedrich Füger und anderen Meistern aus der Sammlung Bourgoing, Vienna, 1925, p. 37.
K. Wilczek, ‘Fügers künstlerischer Entwicklungsgang‘, Jahrbuch der kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien, NF II, Special Issue 24, 1928, p. 334.
L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, p. 274 (described as ‘very good’).
J. Nimmergut and A.-M. Wager, Miniaturen. Dosen, Munich, 1982, illustrated p. 169, no. 160.
R. Keil, Heinrich Friedrich Füger 1751-1818, Vienna, 2009, p. 231, no. 110, and p. 62.
A. Kende-Ehrenstein, Das Miniaturporträt, Vienna and Leipzig, 1908, illustrated plate 10.
E. Leisching, Die Bildnis-Miniatur in Österreich von 1750 bis 1850, Vienna, 1907, p. 82, illustrated, p. 236, no. 31.
E. Lemberger, Meisterminiaturen aus fünf Jahrhunderten, Stuttgart, 1911, p. 24, illustrated in colour pl. 10.
Velhagen & Klasings Monatshefte, September issue, 1915, p. 122.
U. Thieme (ed.), Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, vol. XIII, Leipzig, 1916, p. 554.
A. Stix, H. F. Füger, Vienna and Leipzig, 1925, p. 83, no. 16, illustrated, pl. XII.
J. de Bourgoing, Miniaturen von Heinrich Friedrich Füger und anderen Meistern aus der Sammlung Bourgoing, Vienna, 1925, p. 37.
K. Wilczek, ‘Fügers künstlerischer Entwicklungsgang‘, Jahrbuch der kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien, NF II, Special Issue 24, 1928, p. 334.
L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, p. 274 (described as ‘very good’).
J. Nimmergut and A.-M. Wager, Miniaturen. Dosen, Munich, 1982, illustrated p. 169, no. 160.
R. Keil, Heinrich Friedrich Füger 1751-1818, Vienna, 2009, p. 231, no. 110, and p. 62.
Vienna, Miniaturen-Ausstellung im Palais des K. K. Ministerrats-Präsidiums, 1905, no. 998 (lent by Gottfried Eissler).
Vienna, Das Wiener Porträt in der ersten Hälfte des XIX. Jahrhunderts, 1905 (according to the 1925 auction catalogue of the estate of Dr Gottfried Eissler).
Berlin, Salons Friedmann & Weber, Miniaturen-Ausstellung, 1906, no. 187 (lent by Gottfried Eissler, Vienna).
Vienna, Albertina, Internationale Miniaturen-Austellung in der Albertina Wien, 1924, no. 367 (lent by Gottfried Eissler).
Vienna, Das Wiener Porträt in der ersten Hälfte des XIX. Jahrhunderts, 1905 (according to the 1925 auction catalogue of the estate of Dr Gottfried Eissler).
Berlin, Salons Friedmann & Weber, Miniaturen-Ausstellung, 1906, no. 187 (lent by Gottfried Eissler, Vienna).
Vienna, Albertina, Internationale Miniaturen-Austellung in der Albertina Wien, 1924, no. 367 (lent by Gottfried Eissler).
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Specialist note
Füger went to Naples in 1782 where he painted the portrait of Empress Maria Theresa’s daughter, Maria Carolina and carried out some decoration for the royal palace of Caserta. In 1783 he returned via Rome to Vienna.