JEREMIA DAVID ALEXANDER FIORINO (GERMAN, 1797-1847)
Lot 440

JEREMIA DAVID ALEXANDER FIORINO (GERMAN, 1797-1847)

Closed2 December 2015

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JEREMIA DAVID ALEXANDER FIORINO (GERMAN, 1797-1847)

Anton (1755-1836), King of Saxony 1827-1836, in red coat with gold facings and gold-embroidered collar, silver epaulettes, wearing the green sash of the Royal Saxon Order of the Rue Crown and the jewel of the Order of the Golden Fleece
Signed and indistinctly dated 'Fiorino [...]' (mid-right)
On ivory
Oval, 43 mm. high, silver frame with a later pierced diamond and ruby-set surround

Gustav Klemperer Edler von Klemenau (1852-1926) Collection, Dresden.
Frau Geheimrat Charlotte von Klemperer, née Engelmann (1857-1934), Dresden.
Lempertz, Cologne, 23 March 1991, lot 49 (11,000 DM).

Specialist note

The sitter was the fifth but third surviving son of Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony, and Maria Antonia of Bavaria. He succeeded his brother Frederick Augustus I as Elector in 1827, at the age of 71. In 1782, he married Princess Caroline of Savoy, but she died after one year of marriage. In 1787, he married Archduchess Maria Theresia of Austria. None of their four children survived infancy. He was succeeded by his nephew, Frederick Augustus II.
The present miniature is after a large-scale oil on canvas portrait by Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein, painted in 1827, and now in the Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden, Gal.-Nr. 3340. Another very similar signed miniature by Fiorino is in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden, Gal.-Nr. M 199 A.