Lot 175: RICHARD SCHWAGER (AUSTRIAN, 1822-1880)

A pair of miniatures depicting Marie Baroness von Fürstenberg zu Stammheim (b. 1864) in off-the-shoulder white dress with lace-trimmed bodice and sleeves, coral necklace, holding a long coral necklace in her right hand and her left arm leaning on a stone plinth with a pink peony, red ribbon tied in her long fair hair: foliate and landscape background; and Paula Baroness von Fürstenberg zu Stammheim (1863-1914) in off-the-shoulder white dress with lace-trimmed bodice and sleeves, pink ribbon tied in her long fair hair; foliate, lake and landscape background
signed and dated 'IR Schwager. 1876' (lower left) and signed, dated and fully inscribed on the backing paper 'Marie Baronesse von Fürstenberg zu Stammheim gemalt im April & Mai 1876 JRSchwager'; and signed and dated 'Schwager' (lower left) '1876' (lower right) and signed, dated and fully inscribed on the backing paper 'Paula Baronesse von Fürstenberg zu Stammheim gemalt im April 1876 JRSchwager', respectively
rectangular, 4 5/8 x 3 5/8 in. (118 x 93 mm.) respectively, gilt-metal mounts within common gilt-metal frame with ribbon and laurel wreath surmount

The sitters were daughters of Gisbert Count of Fürstenberg-Stammheim and his wife Eugenie née Countess Auersperg. Marie died unmarried in Munich and Paula married, as his first wife, in 1889 at Stammheim/Rhine, Hans Karl Gotthard, Count Schaffgotsch auf Zülshoff, a royal Prussian chamberlain and Rittmeister.

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