Portrait miniature of Louise von Herckes as bride was executed by Austrian portrait and miniature artist Franz Weigl (also Weigel). born in 1810 in Vienna and died 1842 in Vienna. He studied at the Vienna Academy and, between 1830-1842, regularly participated in academic exhibitions of St.Anna showing portraits. He also made copies after Viennese miniaturist Friedrich Johann Gottlieb Lieder and other artists. At the academic exhibition of 1830 he showed (among others) a watercolor portrait of composer Franz Schubert.

Provenance: Dorotheum sale on 25.10.1995; private collection, Vienna.

Literature: Nagler (G. K. Dr.). Neues allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon (New General Encyclopedia of Artists), Munich 1839, E. A. Fleischmann, 8°.) Vol. XXI, p. 228. – Catalogs of the annual exhibitions of the Imperial and Royal Academy of Fine Arts at St. Anna in Vienna (8°.) 1828, 1836, 1841, 1842.

Inscription: signed and on the back. 

Technique: gouache on ivory, painted in oval, original wooden frame with inner oval brass frame.

Measurements: unframed w 1 3/4" x h 2 3/8" (4,4 x 6 cm), framed 4 1/3" x 5 1/2" (11,2 x 14 cm).

Condition: very good.