Italian school of the 19th century, after Giovanni Battista Lampi (Romeno 1751-1830 Vienna) Portrait of Archduchess Elisabeth Wilhelmine Louise of Habsburg (1767-1790) née de Wurtemberg, first wife of the future Emperor Francis II (1768-1835). Oil on panel. 22 x 16 cm. On the back, handwritten annotations incorrectly identifying the model as the singer Ida Simonetti, favorite of the Grand Duke of Tuscany Pierre-Léopold (1747-1792), reigning from 1765 to 1790. Presented in an attractive stuccoed and gilded wooden frame with rocaille decoration (Restoration to a knot in the panel. Frame broken and glued back together, in need of restoration). Our painting is a charming reduction of the 1785 portrait of Archduchess Elisabeth, one of the masterpieces of the favorite portraitist of the Viennese court: Lampi, now in the KunstHistorisches Museum (155 x 112 cm., inv. GG_8781). It is one of the few effigies of this princess, who met with a tragic fate: she died in childbirth while giving birth to her first child, after only two years of harmonious married life. Expert : Pierre-Antoine MARTENET.