AUSTRIAN SCHOOL | PORTRAIT OF LEOPOLD II

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June 30, 02:43 PM GMT

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4,000 - 6,000 CHF

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PROPERTY FROM A SWISS PRIVATE COLLECTION

AUSTRIAN SCHOOL

18th Century

PORTRAIT OF LEOPOLD II

Oil on canvas

72 x 51 cm (unframed); 81 x 60 cm (framed)

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Leitner, Vienna, from who acquired by Ing. Viktor Baerlocher, Vienna in the 1930s, thence by descent

The third son of Empress Maria Theresia and Emperor Francis I, Leopold II (1747-92) was Grand Duke of Tuscany 1765-90, Archduke of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, and Holy Roman Emperor 1790-92. During his lifetime he was portrayed by several well-known painters such as Anton Raphael Mengs and Pompeo Batoni, but the painter of the present portrait, which shows Leopold II as a young boy, has yet to be identified.