Emperor Josef II. & Kaiser Josef II.

A Pair of Marble-Busts

Giuseppe Pisani (1757 Carrara-1839 Modena)
Made when Pisani was sculptor to the Austrian court.
Signed and dated 1797. Height 72 cm

Benezit (Dictionary of Artists, Gründ 2006) Bd11/Seite 49: Pisani, Giuseppe Italian, Born 1757 in Carrara, died 27 December 1839 in Modena.
Giuseppe Pisani was active in Rome. In 1798 he entered the service of the house of Este in Vienna. He carved a number of tombs in the cathedral at Modena and the churches of Krems and Gran.

 

Joseph II (Joseph Benedikt Anton Michael Adam; March 13, 1741 – February 20, 1790) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1765 to 1790 and ruler of the Habsburg lands from 1780 to 1790. He was the eldest son of Empress Maria Theresa and her husband, Francis I. He was thus the first ruler in the Austrian dominions of the House of Lorraine, styled Habsburg-Lorraine (von Habsburg-Lothringen in German). Joseph was a proponent of enlightened absolutism. He is famous for his many modernizing reforms, the opposition to them by some groups, and the resulting failure of his programme.

He is known by the names in the languages of his territories: German: Joseph II, Hungarian: II József, Dutch: Jozef II, Italian: Giuseppe II, Czech: Josef II, Serbian: Јосиф II/Josif II, Slovak: Jozef II, Slovene: Jožef II, Romanian: Iosif al II-lea, Croatian: Josip II, Polish: Józef II.

 

Marble bust
classicistic, Italy around 1820, H: 70 cm

Marble bust - Prince Wenzel Anton Kaunitz-Rietberg (1711 Vienna - 1794 Vienna)

Probably by Johann Baptist Hagenauer (1732 Ainring - 1810 Vienna)
Carrara marble, verso inscribed “Kaunitz” and inventory number “334”.
H: 47 cm without base (base H: 20 cm)

Marble bust - Carl III.
Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel
Marble, unsigned, around 1830. Height 62 cm

Duke Karl III Friedrich of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (b.Braunschweig 30 Oct 1804, d.Geneva 19 Aug 1873); m.Charlotte Colville (14 May 1807-India 16 May 1855)

YOUNG PRINCE WITH HOBBY-HORSE IN A LANDSCAPE - SOLD

by E. W. Thompson,
also called E.W. Thomson (1770 - 1847 Lincoln)
signed and dated 1829, rue du Faubourg St. Honore, Paris.
watercolour on paper in original frame, 26,5 x 21,3 cm.

E. W. Thompson (1770-1847)was a British portraitist and rather miniaturist who worked in Paris and London. In the beginning he acted as engraver. In the first quarter of the 19th century Thompson made water colour miniatures, for example a knee-length portrait of a young lady (1817) and – as counterpart – the portrait of an officer (undesignated. Both were 1911 in the collection of Graf Philipp Grünne in the castle Dobersberg in lower Austria.
Lit.: Thieme Becker, Leipzig 1992, Bd. 33/34, S. 73f.
Leo R. Schidlof, La Miniature en Europe. Aux 16e, 17e, 18e et 19e siècles, Vol. II, Graz 1964, S. 835.

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