id: 121271 accession number: 1942.1142 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.1142 updated: 2024-08-08 15:13:42.115000 Portrait of Marie Karolina Anna, Countess Thun, c. 1790. Heinrich Friedrich Füger (German, 1751–1818). Watercolor on ivory in an ormolu frame; framed: 22.4 x 17.5 cm (8 13/16 x 6 7/8 in.); unframed: 17.5 x 12.7 cm (6 7/8 x 5 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Edward B. Greene Collection 1942.1142 title: Portrait of Marie Karolina Anna, Countess Thun title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1790 creation date earliest: 1785 creation date latest: 1795 current location: creditline: The Edward B. Greene Collection copyright: --- culture: Germany, 18th century technique: watercolor on ivory in an ormolu frame department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - German before 1800 type: Portrait Miniature find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Heinrich Friedrich Füger (German, 1751–1818) - artist Heinrich Füger was born in Heilbronn, a small town in south-western Germany midway between Heidelberg and Stuttgart, on December 8, 1751. By age eight, he was already painting miniature portraits; however, at age fifteen, he became discouraged with art and decided to study law. He returned to art, and began study with the historical painter Adam Friedrich Oeser in Leipzig. Füger's work caught the attention of the British and Swedish ambassadors to the court of Saxony at Dresden; where he achieved considerable success. In 1774 he went to Vienna and under the patronage of the empress Maria Theresa, he painted many portraits of the imperial family and Viennese aristocracy. In 1776, he moved to Italy, where he studied classical art and the works of Raphael and Anton Raphael Mengs, and he produced both miniatures and important large-scale works. Füger returned to Vienna in 1783. There he became vice-director of the Academy of Fine Arts, and in 1795 its director. As court painter he became the most popular portrait artist in Vienna. However, by about 1798, an eye ailment prevented his painting miniatures and he returned to painting large-scale pictures. He died in Vienna on November 5, 1818. --- measurements: Framed: 22.4 x 17.5 cm (8 13/16 x 6 7/8 in.); Unframed: 17.5 x 12.7 cm (6 7/8 x 5 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Portraiture: The Image of the Individual opening date: 1983-11-22T05:00:00 Portraiture: The Image of the Individual. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 1983-January 22, 1984). title: Intimate Images: Portrait Miniatures from Europe and America opening date: 1993-03-26T04:00:00 Intimate Images: Portrait Miniatures from Europe and America. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 26-October 17, 1993). title: Disembodied: Portrait Minatures and their Contemporary Relatives opening date: 2013-11-10T00:00:00 Disembodied: Portrait Minatures and their Contemporary Relatives. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 10, 2013-February 16, 2014). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Main Gallery Rotation (Gallery 202): January 5, 2009 - April 6, 2009.', 'opening_date': '2009-01-05T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, and Edward Belden Greene. Portrait Miniatures ; The Edward B. Greene Collection. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1951. page number: Mentioned: no. 81, p. 37; Reproduced: pl. XXXIX url: Cleveland Museum of Art, and Edward Belden Greene. Portrait Miniatures ; The Edward B. Greene Collection. 1951. page number: Mentioned: p. 37, cat.81, p. 23; Reproduced: plate XXXIX url: https://archive.org/details/PortraitMiniatures Lister, Raymond. "Heinrich Friedrich Fuger, Miniaturist," Apollo LX (September 1954): 37. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 37, no. 81 url: Chefs-d'oeuvre de la miniature et de la gouache. Genèva, Switzerland: Le Musée, 1956. page number: Reproduced: no. 161 url: Schidlof, Leo R. The Miniature in Europe in the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries. Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1964. page number: Reproduced: pl. 225, fig. 438, vol. III url: Stagni, Simonetta, Carla Bernardini, and Renzo Grandi. Piccoli artifici: miniature e ritrattini dalle raccolte civiche. Bologna, Italy: Nuova Alfa editoriale, 1991. page number: Mentioned: p. 23, 24; Reproduced: no. 18 url: Carlini, Antonio. "I Thun et la Musica." In Castel Thun: Arte, Architettura e Committenza. LiaCamerlengo and Emanuela Rollandini. Trento: Provincia autonoma di Trento, Castello del Buonconsiglio, Monumenti e collezioni provinciali, 2017. page number: Reproduced: p. 330, #1; Mentioned: p. 331 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.1142/1942.1142_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.1142/1942.1142_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.1142/1942.1142_full.tif