Rare quality portrait miniature of young beauty executed in 1833 by important German miniature artist Caspar Gerhard Klotz (1774 Mannheim - 1847 Munich). First studies by his father painter Mathias Klotz in Munich, since 1794 became the court painter by Prince (Kurfürst) Karl Theodor. in 1803 was the artist active in Paris$, later in Vienna. 1817 he was referred of the police ( on intrigue of the Frankfurt painter guild as more annoying, because talented and successful painter- foreigner ) and lived since then continuously in Munich. Nagler attributes numerous portraits, among them from persons of the Royal House, to him. Today are received nearly only miniatures by Klotz, which prove him as portraitist of unusual importance and finest noblesse, Particularly 2 miniaturen from the possession of the general of Neureuther, which were exhibited in Munich,in 1920 on the exhibition" Munich Painting around 1800" , are to emphasize. Works by the artst situated in the nestr noble and private collection and museums: Historical Museum in Munich, Porcelain Manufacture in Nymphenburg (portrait of Ludwig I of Bavaria); State pictury gallery in Munich, Reichfinanzhof in Munich (portrait miniature of Maximilaian I Joseph of Bavaria); Estate of Grossherzof ernst Ludwig of Hessen (6 miniatures of members of House Hessen-Homburg) ; estae of Prince Philipp von Wrede; many different private collections around Europe.

Literature : Thieme/Becker "Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon", Leipzig, 1999; Nagler "Künstlerlexikon", VII, 1839); Lemberger "Das Bildnissminiatur in Deutschland", Munich, 1909.

Inscription: signed and dated (18)33 lower right.

Technique: gouache on ivory .Original period wood frame.

Measurements: unframed w 3 1/4 " x 4 " (8 x 10 cm); framed 6 1/4 " x 7 " (16 x 17,5 cm)

Condition: in good condition.