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LOTE 4:
Moritz Michael Daffinger (Viena, 1790-1849)
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Portrait of a woman
Gouache and tempera. Signed in the lower right corner, from bottom to top: "Daffinger".
Moritz Michael Daffinger's (Vienna, 1790-1849) relationship with the art of painting has its origins in the activity of his father, Johann Daffinger, a painter at the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory in the Austrian capital, where his son Moritz entered as an apprentice at the age of 11.
His admission to study at the Vienna Academy under the tutelage of masters Hubert Maurer and Heinrich Friedrich Füger led him in 1804 to be awarded first prize in the discipline of Drawing. 1812 was the year in which he became a painter for the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, an activity that eventually led to his dedication to painting miniatures.
The influence received in his style, and that different art historians point out from the French master Jean-Baptiste Isabey (1767-1855), miniaturist of Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) and protégé of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), comes from his selection along with other painters, after his attendance to the Congress of Vienna (1814-1815).
The protection he received from Prince
Klemens von Metternich (1773-1859), Austrian Foreign Minister and Bonaparte's enemy, made him one of the select painters of both the Austrian imperial family and the high aristocracy of that country. His taste for the paintings of Melanie, the prince's third wife, made him the curator of her collection of paintings, with whom he must have maintained an undoubted artistic contact.
This miniature presents, signed on the right side "Daffinger", the portrait of a young woman to be identified. Her hairstyle corresponds to the Viennese female fashion of the 1830s, if we compare it with the headdress worn by the Archduchess Sophie of Austria (1805-1872) in the portrait of her painted by Joseph Karl Stieler (1781-1858) in 1832. Our portrait shows a certain candor and elegant bearing, with simple clothing, a fine earring and a chain around her neck. She could be a descendant of Prince Metternich, with three marriages and numerous daughters, plus another recognized illegitimate.
The Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid has a painting acquired in 1980 of Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria, an unsigned miniature attributed to Daffinger (MNP, cat. no. O000707).
| Medidas: | 5.9 x 7.5 cm |
| Medidas com a moldura: | 8.5 x 9.9 cm |
