Lot 331: Countess Appollonia Wielogórska, in off-the-shoulder white dress with tiered lace collar with white ribbon and bow at corsage, wearing a thin gold ribbon around her neck, her dark hair swept back; nocturnal sky and landscape background

JOHANN MICHAEL HOLDER (GERMAN, 1796-1861)
Countess Appollonia Wielogórska, in off-the-shoulder white dress with tiered lace collar with white ribbon and bow at corsage, wearing a thin gold ribbon around her neck, her dark hair swept back; nocturnal sky and landscape background
signed and dated 'Holder p: 1841.' (lower right)
rectangular, 4 1/8 x 3 1/8 in. (105 x 80 mm.), gilt-metal mount

For a miniature of Countess Maria Razumovskaya by this artist, of 1833, see T. A. Selinova, Portrait Miniature in Russia XVIII - XIX Centuries, from the Collection of the Historical Museum, Moscow , Leningrad, 1988, p. 323, no. 126, illustrated p. 254, pl. 215.