Lot 253: ROBERT THEER (AUSTRIAN, 1808-1863)

ROBERT THEER (AUSTRIAN, 1808-1863)
Archduchess Marie Karoline of Austria (1825-1915), in white dress and fur-lined blue coat, five strands of pearls, pearl brooch and pearl drop-earrings, upswept centre-parted hair
on ivory
oval, 3 5/8 in. (92 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame within rectangular leather travelling case

Vienna, Palais des k. k. Ministerrats-Präsidiums, Miniaturen-Ausstellung, 1905, no. 797 (lent by TIRH Archduke Rainer and Archduchess Marie of Austria).

E. Leisching, Die Bildnis-Miniatur in Österreich von 1650 bis 1850, Vienna, 1907, pp. 171 and 253, no. 208, illustrated pl. XLIX, no. 4.

Archduke Rainer Ferdinand of Austria, the sitter's husband, in 1905 and 1907.
Dorotheum, Vienna, 6 June 1961, lot 215.