
Raphael Machiels
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Provenance
With Giancarlo Sestieri, Rome
Literature
Biancalana, Alessandro, Porcellane Ginori a Doccia. La stanza delle meraviglie di casa Colli, 2023, p. 218, cat. 23
This portrait was part of a matrimonial pair that included Maria Theresa's husband, Francis Stephen of Lorraine (1708-1765) (Biancalana, op. cit.). In 1737, around the time of the Doccia manufactory's founding, the last of the Medici Grand Dukes died, bringing Tuscany under gubernatorial control of the Habsburg monarchs. The pair are also depicted together in profile in a relief plaque in the Museo Duca di Martina, Naples, inv. 2953 (published by Claudia Lehner-Jobst, "La collezione del polo museale della Campania", in Quaderni Amici di Doccia, XII (2019), no. 14).
A version of this bust in stoneware is in the The Princely Collections of Liechtenstein, Vienna (inv. PO 878).