Portrait Of Theresa Kunegunda, Electress Of Bavaria And Princess Of Poland

Portrait of Theresa Kunegunda, Electress of Bavaria and Princess of Poland" The previous owner of this rare noble portrait was the Royal House of Saxony and we purchased it at Sotheby's major auction "Of Royal and Noble Descent" , Amsterdam on 16-17.10.2001, Lot No. 208.
She was the daughter of Polish King John III Sobieski and Marie Louise de la Grange d´Casimire Arquier. Theresa married Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria, on January 2, 1695.
She was the mother of ten children by her husband, including Holy Roman Emperor Charles VII, and Clemens August of Bavaria, Archbishop-Elector of Cologne.In 1704-05, following the evacuation of the Bavarian court to the Spanish Netherlands after the defeat at the Battle of Blenheim, she was apparently in charge of the government in the Electoral Palatinate as regent Princess Palatine. She rests in the Theatiner Church in Munich.

Literature: cataloque of  auction "De la royal and noble descent", Sothebys, Amsterdam, 16-17.10.2001, Lot No. 208 (illustrated), online: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresa_Kunegunda_Sobieska
Inscription: unsigned.
Technique: oil on canvas, original period gilt frame.
Dimensions: unframed 66 x 90 cm, framed 86 x 110 cm.
Condition: in good condition, relining of the canvas.