A superb miniature of a young Count Harrach in blue-grey robe with white shirt

细节

HEINRICH FRIEDRICH FÜGER (AUSTRO-GERMAN, 1751-1818)
A superb miniature of a young Count Harrach in blue-grey robe with white shirt
oval, 6 5/16 in. (160 mm.) high, ormolu frame with beaded borders

来源

Ernst Holzscheiter Collection, Meilen; part III, Sotheby's, London, 9 June 1986, lot 19.

展览

Geneva, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Chefs-d'oeuvre de la miniature et de la gouache, 1956, no. 164.
Zurich, Haus am Rechberg, 1957-1958 (lent by Ernst Holzscheiter, Meilen).
Vienna, Albertina, Meisterwerke der europäischen Miniaturmalerei von 1750 bis 1850, 1965, no. 148.

注意事项

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拍品专文

The companion piece to this miniature, depicting Johann Nepomuk Ernst Count Harrach (1756-1829), also from the Holzscheiter collection, was sold Sothebys, London, 28 March 1977, lot 75. The 1986 auction catalogue mis-identified the sitter of the present miniature as the same Count, despite the apparent lack of resemblance. It is more likely that the present miniature depicts one of Johann's three brothers, either Ernst Christoph Josef Count Harrach (1757-1838), Karl Borromäus (1761-1829) or Ferdinand Josef (1763-1841).
The Harrach family and their relatives were important clients of Füger; he also painted miniatures of Franz Josef Count Wilczek who was married to Johann Nepomuk's sister Maria Josefa Countess Harrach (sold Christie's, Geneva, 25 May 1993, lot 177) and of Anna Countess Taaffe, née Harrach (Holzscheiter Collection, illustrated in H. Rieben, Bildnisminiaturen, Berne, 1951, pl. XVIII).