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695 - Attributed to Augustin Christian Ritt (Аугустин Кристиан Ритт), Miniature of the ‘Countess Potocka’, (The Pohl-Ströher Collection of Portrait Miniatures Part 1, Sotheby’s 6 December 2018), unframed in its original 18th-century frame.
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Attributed to Augustin Christian Ritt (Аугустин Кристиан Ритт), Miniature of the ‘Countess Potocka’, (The Pohl-Ströher Collection of Portrait Miniatures Part 1, Sotheby’s 6 December 2018), unframed in its original 18th-century frame. Augustin Christian Ritt, 1765 - St Petersburg - 1799, attributed; a leading Russian portrait miniaturist of German descent. He is regarded as one of the most outstanding masters of portrait miniatures of his era; shown here: Countess Delfina Potocka, née Komarówna (1807, Murowani Kuryliwzi, Podolia - 1877, Paris), muse to the composer Fryderyk Chopin and the poets Juliusz Słowacki and Zygmunt Krasiński, watercolour and opaque colours on egg tempera, 7 x 5.4 cm, unopened, inscribed on the reverse in old cursive script ‘Countess Potocka’, in the original black frame set with polished brassFor comparison: The Pohl-Ströher Collection of Portrait Miniatures Part 1, Sotheby’s 6 December 2018, London, United Kingdom, figure on p. 70 of the catalogue
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306th Auction, Day 2Auction house
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