Moritz Michael Daffinger
Moritz Michael Daffinger , 1840 (Executed)
Lot #172-A |
2015-09-30 |
Dorotheum, Vienna
Master Drawings, Prints before 1900, Watercolours, Miniatures
Category:
Miniature
Estimate:
EUR 6,000 - 8,000 (currency of sale)
USD 6,722 - 8,962 (approx.)
Price Sold:
Auction Details
Auction house: Dorotheum
Auction number: 38Z150930
Auction name: Master Drawings, Prints before 1900, Watercolours, Miniatures
Auction type: Fine Art
Location: Vienna
Start date: 2015-09-30
End date: 2015-09-30
Currency: EUR
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Lot Description
Details
Genre: Portrait
Department: Painting & Works on Paper
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Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.3 cm
Item measurements:
Height In Centimeters:
9.5
Width In Centimeters:
7.3
Height In Inches:
3.74
Width In Inches:
2.87
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Year notes: Executed in 1840.
Provenance
A. Moritz Michael Daffinger was the son of the porcelain painter Johann Leopold Daffinger. At the age of ten he began to draft designs for his mother who embroidered gloves for noble ladies. A year later he was received as an apprentice in the Royal and Imperial porcelain manufacture. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and was a pupil of Heinrich Friedrich Füger. From 1809 onwards he dedicated himself mainly to portraiture, which he particularly painted on ivory. In 1812 he became portrait painter of Count Metternich. He was strongly influenced by Thomas Lawrence and Eugene Isabey. After his daughter‘s death in 1841 he turned more and more towards flower still lifes. Daffinger died in 1849 from the cholera. As a portrait miniature painter he was so important that he influenced the most miniaturists in Austria following him.