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Formerly in the famous Manney collection (USA; together with our web # 44586), this charming portrait of a baby with a rattle (still set into the original gilt metal brooch), seems also to have been executed in Vienna. It strongly resembles works by one of the best Viennese turn of the 19th century portrait miniaturist, Carl Ludwig Hummel de Bourdon (for example see our comparison images nr. 9-11).

Carl Ludwig Hummel de Bourdon was born ca.1769 into an aristocratic family living in Besançon, France. During the French Revolution he fled from the Great Terror from France and settled in Austria (this suggestion stems from Dr. Bodo Hofstetter (Switzerland); see his recently published catalogue "Portraitminiaturen/ Museum Liaunig", Neuhaus, 2015, p. 371). For the first time he is mentioned in a marriage contract completed in Vienna in 1800. In this document he is named as court artist of Archduke Joseph's (Palatine of Hungary) wife - Alexandra Pavlovna, nee Grand Duchess of Russia. This fact has made some art historian to suppose that Carl Hummel de Bourdon has spent a few years in Hungary in this period. Dr. Hofstetter believes that this supposition is not convincing enough, since the wedding of Alexandra Pavlovna and the Archduke Joseph took place on 30 October 1799, and Hummel's wedding took place in Vienna (and not in Hungary) a few months later.
It seems in the mid 1810s he spent some time in Poland (or Lemberg (Lviv) belonging then to the Austrian Empire, capital of formerly Polish (since 1772 Austrian) province Galicia). This supposition is supported by a lot of his portraits of Polish aristocrats of that time.
He died in Vienna in 1840 at the age of 71.

Provenance:
- The Manney Family Collection, USA
- auction house "Freeman's", Philadelphia, USA, sale on July 13, 2023

Condition: good; in original gilt metal (gold?) brooch, no marks

Creation Year: 1800/1810s

Measurements: UNFRAMED: 3.3cm x 4.2cm / 1.3in x 1.7in FRAMED: 5.0cm x 5.8cm / 2.0in x 2.3in

Object Type: Framed miniature

Style: Portrait Miniatures

Technique: watercolor painting (rectangular with rounded corners)

Inscription: -

Creator: Carl Ludwig Hummel de Bourdon

Creator Dates: ca.1769 Besançon (FR)-1840 Vienna

Nationality: French/ Austrian


Themes:
AUSTRIAN
EMPIRE
CHILDREN
CHILDREN PORTRAIT
LITTLE BOY
LITTLE GIRL
BABY
FAMILY

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