PORTRAIT OF COUNTESS CHRISTIANA VON LICHNOWSKY (1765-1841)

Creator(s): Unknown (Miniaturist) , Heinrich Friedrich Füger (After)

Currently in storage

About this object

The portrait is of a young woman shown half-length, identified as Countess Christiana. She wears her partly powdered hair high with curls over her shoulders. There is a circlet of blue flowers in her hair. She wears a veil on top of her head that falls back over her shoulders and further downwards. Her dress is a pastel green trimmed in white.It has a v-neck that is edged in a band of satin. She wears a diamond shaped pin at the intersection of the v.

Object name:

PORTRAIT OF COUNTESS CHRISTIANA VON LICHNOWSKY (1765-1841)

Made from:

Watercolor on ivory

Made in:

GERMANY

Date made:

after 1788

Size:

8.4 x 6.4 cm (3 5/16 x 2 1/2 in.)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:

53.34

Class:

MINIATURE

Signature marks:

SIGNATURE at left in red: F. Fg. INSCRIPTIONS 107 [in pencil on back] LABEL C 11479 [attached to the loop]

Credit line:

Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973