Lot 484
A PORTRAIT MINIATURE OF CLEMENTINA SOBIESKA
ITALIAN SCHOOL, MID-18TH CENTURY
Auction: Day Two | Thursday 20 August from 10am | Lots 199 - 555
Description
The half-length portrait, depicting Clementina wearing a patterned grey silk dress with purple drops to her left, later white metal frame with loop, oil on copper
Dimensions
4cm x 5.5cm, 11cm x 9cm (frame)
Provenance
Sotheby's Portrait Miniatures, Objects of Vertu & Silver 13th July 1999, lot 1
Boris Wilnitsky, Vienna
Private Collection of a Gentleman
Footnote
Although this image is of a mature woman, the vendor suggests an earlier date (Clementina died 1735) and that this is copied from possibly a Tersiano painting.