Previous owner of this rare noble portrait was the Royal House of Saxony and we purchased it by Sotheby`s important auction "Of Royal and Noble Descent", Amsterdam on 16-17.10.2001, Lot No. 208. About the sitter: Theresa Kunegunda (Polish: Teresa Kunegunda Sobieska) (4 March 1676-10 March 1730) was an Electress of Bavaria and the Palatinate. She also served as Regent of the Palatinate in 1704-05. She was a daughter of Polish King John III Sobieski and Marie Louise de la Grange d´Casimire Arquier. Theresa married Maximilian II Emanuel,elector of Bavaria, on 2 January 1695. She was mother of ten children by her husband, including Holy Roman Emperor Charles VII, and Clemens August of Bavaria, Archbishop-Elector of Cologne.In 1704-05, following the evacuation of the Bavarian court to the Spanish Netherlands after the defeat at the Battle of Blenheim, she apparently was in charge of the government in the Electoral Palatinate as Regent Princess Palatine. She rests in the Theatiner Church in Munich.

Literature: auction cataloque "Of Royal and Noble Descent", Sothebys, Amsterdam, 16-17.10.2001, Lot No.208 (illustrated), in on-line:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresa_Kunegunda_Sobieska

Inscription: unsigned.

Technique: oil on canvas. Luxuriousy gold-plated frame.

Measurements: unframed w 26 " x h 35 1/2 " (66 x 90 cm), framed w 33 3/4 " x h 43 1/4 " (86 x 110 cm).

Condition: in good condition, relining of canvas..