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Details
Moritz Michael Daffinger (Austrian, 1790-1849)
Lieutenant Botha in black cloak
Signed ‘Daffinger’ (mid-right)
On ivory
Octagonal, 76 x 60 mm., gilt-metal mount in rectangular brown leather panel
Lieutenant Botha in black cloak
Signed ‘Daffinger’ (mid-right)
On ivory
Octagonal, 76 x 60 mm., gilt-metal mount in rectangular brown leather panel
Provenance
Baron Hans Reitzes von Marienwert (1877-1935) Collection, Vienna, by 1923; (†) Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 8 May 1947, lot 437.
Ernst Holzscheiter Collection, Meilen (inv. no. MD/0396 and 160).
Ernst Holzscheiter Collection, Meilen (inv. no. MD/0396 and 160).
Literature
Grünstein 1923, pp. 81 and 121, illustrated pl. XXXI.
Pirchan 1943, illustrated fig. 28.
Rieben 1951; Werner 1951; Rieben 1952, illustrated in colour pl. XIX.
Lucquet de Saint-Germain 1987, p. 65, illustrated in colour fig. 8.
Pirchan 1943, illustrated fig. 28.
Rieben 1951; Werner 1951; Rieben 1952, illustrated in colour pl. XIX.
Lucquet de Saint-Germain 1987, p. 65, illustrated in colour fig. 8.
Exhibited
Vienna 1924, no. 204 (lent by Hans Freiherr von Reitzes).
Geneva 1956, no. 119.
Geneva 1956, no. 119.
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