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Details of object number: 150145
Title:Double miniature Thomas Carli and Amalia Graff with clock
Object name:tableau
Collection:Folladore-Kleewein
Created by:Unknown
Production date:(about) 1823
Description:Round double miniature with two portraits: man with dark short hairstyle, green jacket and necktie, woman with white powdered hairstyle, wearing a blue dress with necklace and pendant. Clock set in cobalt blue. Metal bow for hanging.
Hist. crit. notes:The persons depicted were identified by Susanne Ruppel, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, as the banker and merchant Thomas (II.) Carli (* 09.05.1799 Augsburg - † 09.02.1867 Bolzano) and his wife Amalia Freifrau von Graff zu Compil und Ehrenfeld (* 14.12.1801 Bolzano - † 23.02.1857 Bolzano, for life data see death portrait https://www.sterbebilder.schwemberger.at/picture.php?/211029).
The double portrait was probably painted on the occasion of their wedding in 1823, when Thomas was 24 years old and his bride 22. In terms of facial features and hairstyle, the portrait of the gentleman matches a portrait painting of Thomas Carli, in which he was possibly around 35 years old. There is also a photograph of Thomas Carli showing him as an old gentleman sitting with a wine glass (for both, see Günther Rauch, Bozner Obstplatz, Historisches und Alltägliches, Bolzano 2012, p. 200, fig. 232 and p. 138, fig. 168). Around four portraits of Amalia von Graff from different periods and ages are illustrated in the same publication (see p. 138, fig. 169; p. 185, fig. 214; p. 196, fig. 226; p. 200, fig. 233).
Thomas Carli was the second son of the banker and Augsburg merchant Karl Dominikus Carli (* 11.03.1759 Augsburg - † 16.08.1823 Bolzano, for biographical data see Rudolf von Granichstaedten-Cerva, Bozener Kaufherren (1550-1850), Ihre Geschichte und ihre Familien, Görlitz 1941, p. 41), owner of the banking house Carli & Comp, ‘which was one of the first financial institutions in the city of Augsburg until the economic collapse after the Napoleonic Wars and its final decline in 1826.’ Thomas Carli settled in Bolzano in 1823 and married Amalia von Graff in Maria Himmelfahrt in Oberbozen on 19 May of the same year. An oil painting of this event by the painter Johann Völser with the grandiose wedding procession of the bride and groom accompanied by the provost and parish priest of Bolzano, Monsignor Alois Dal Piaz, has been preserved in private ownership.
The couple Amalia and Thomas Carli ‘lived in the Graff house at Obstplatz 37, which they had renovated and refurnished in the Biedermeier style before their wedding. The summer holiday home in Maria Himmelfahrt was also renovated.’ Through the dowry of his wife, the only child of Baron Johann Jakob (III.) von Ehrenfeld (* 27.12.1769 Bolzano - † 14.02.1814 Bolzano), Thomas Carli took over the wholesale company J. J. Graff & Co. as well as other ‘property, which included the stately town house at the fruit market, the town house in Herrengasse, the former monastery in Gries, several farms, extensive fruit and wine estates in Überetsch and Etschtal, the gorge meadow in Andrian and several large wooded areas. Carli was a Bavarian trade consul and was elected in 1835 and 1838 by the foreign trade merchants for the German component in the Bolzano mercantile magistrate, which was administered jointly with Italian trade envoys.’
The company heir and son of Amalia and Thomas Carli, Rudolf Carli (* 02.02.1832 Bolzano - † 06.03.1896 Bolzano) passed on Graff'sche Großhandlung to the authorised signatory Andreas Seelos in 1841 and from then on devoted himself to his own ‘company, which specialised in the distribution of local agricultural products. [...] He sat on the board of the commercial section of the Bolzano Chamber of Commerce and Industry, which succeeded the mercantile magistrate in 1851.’ Due to his experience in banking and credit, he introduced the idea of a savings bank to the merchants' association, modelled on the Nuremberg and Augsburg savings banks, which was founded in 1851 as the first South Tyrolean savings bank and of which he was the director for many years. ‘He was also one of the founding members of the Bolzano Gymnastics Association and was involved in setting up the Bolzano Volunteer Fire Brigade. He was also a member of the committee of the commercial association of the city of Bolzano, which was founded in 1881.’ [...]
Daughter Berta Carli (1829 - 25.02.1896 Bolzano, for life data see death picture of Bertha Carli https://www.sterbebilder.schwemberger.at/picture.php?/19977) married the Bolzano wine merchant Jakob Thaler (1804-1873) in her first marriage and the Imperial and Royal Captain Ignaz Rodeneder (1822-1900) from Graz in her second marriage. ‘Berta Rodeneder had inherited the bathing establishment and the Bad Isidor inn in Kampenn in 1890 and then sold it.’ (Compare: Günther Rauch, Bozner Obstplatz, Historisches und Alltägliches, Bolzano 2012, pp. 198-203; Rudolf von Granichstaedten-Cerva, Bozener Kaufherren (1550-1850), Ihre Geschichte und ihre Familien, Görlitz 1941, p. 42).
(Research 23.08.2024, Alexandra Pan, Office for Culture)
The double portrait was probably painted on the occasion of their wedding in 1823, when Thomas was 24 years old and his bride 22. In terms of facial features and hairstyle, the portrait of the gentleman matches a portrait painting of Thomas Carli, in which he was possibly around 35 years old. There is also a photograph of Thomas Carli showing him as an old gentleman sitting with a wine glass (for both, see Günther Rauch, Bozner Obstplatz, Historisches und Alltägliches, Bolzano 2012, p. 200, fig. 232 and p. 138, fig. 168). Around four portraits of Amalia von Graff from different periods and ages are illustrated in the same publication (see p. 138, fig. 169; p. 185, fig. 214; p. 196, fig. 226; p. 200, fig. 233).
Thomas Carli was the second son of the banker and Augsburg merchant Karl Dominikus Carli (* 11.03.1759 Augsburg - † 16.08.1823 Bolzano, for biographical data see Rudolf von Granichstaedten-Cerva, Bozener Kaufherren (1550-1850), Ihre Geschichte und ihre Familien, Görlitz 1941, p. 41), owner of the banking house Carli & Comp, ‘which was one of the first financial institutions in the city of Augsburg until the economic collapse after the Napoleonic Wars and its final decline in 1826.’ Thomas Carli settled in Bolzano in 1823 and married Amalia von Graff in Maria Himmelfahrt in Oberbozen on 19 May of the same year. An oil painting of this event by the painter Johann Völser with the grandiose wedding procession of the bride and groom accompanied by the provost and parish priest of Bolzano, Monsignor Alois Dal Piaz, has been preserved in private ownership.
The couple Amalia and Thomas Carli ‘lived in the Graff house at Obstplatz 37, which they had renovated and refurnished in the Biedermeier style before their wedding. The summer holiday home in Maria Himmelfahrt was also renovated.’ Through the dowry of his wife, the only child of Baron Johann Jakob (III.) von Ehrenfeld (* 27.12.1769 Bolzano - † 14.02.1814 Bolzano), Thomas Carli took over the wholesale company J. J. Graff & Co. as well as other ‘property, which included the stately town house at the fruit market, the town house in Herrengasse, the former monastery in Gries, several farms, extensive fruit and wine estates in Überetsch and Etschtal, the gorge meadow in Andrian and several large wooded areas. Carli was a Bavarian trade consul and was elected in 1835 and 1838 by the foreign trade merchants for the German component in the Bolzano mercantile magistrate, which was administered jointly with Italian trade envoys.’
The company heir and son of Amalia and Thomas Carli, Rudolf Carli (* 02.02.1832 Bolzano - † 06.03.1896 Bolzano) passed on Graff'sche Großhandlung to the authorised signatory Andreas Seelos in 1841 and from then on devoted himself to his own ‘company, which specialised in the distribution of local agricultural products. [...] He sat on the board of the commercial section of the Bolzano Chamber of Commerce and Industry, which succeeded the mercantile magistrate in 1851.’ Due to his experience in banking and credit, he introduced the idea of a savings bank to the merchants' association, modelled on the Nuremberg and Augsburg savings banks, which was founded in 1851 as the first South Tyrolean savings bank and of which he was the director for many years. ‘He was also one of the founding members of the Bolzano Gymnastics Association and was involved in setting up the Bolzano Volunteer Fire Brigade. He was also a member of the committee of the commercial association of the city of Bolzano, which was founded in 1881.’ [...]
Daughter Berta Carli (1829 - 25.02.1896 Bolzano, for life data see death picture of Bertha Carli https://www.sterbebilder.schwemberger.at/picture.php?/19977) married the Bolzano wine merchant Jakob Thaler (1804-1873) in her first marriage and the Imperial and Royal Captain Ignaz Rodeneder (1822-1900) from Graz in her second marriage. ‘Berta Rodeneder had inherited the bathing establishment and the Bad Isidor inn in Kampenn in 1890 and then sold it.’ (Compare: Günther Rauch, Bozner Obstplatz, Historisches und Alltägliches, Bolzano 2012, pp. 198-203; Rudolf von Granichstaedten-Cerva, Bozener Kaufherren (1550-1850), Ihre Geschichte und ihre Familien, Görlitz 1941, p. 42).
(Research 23.08.2024, Alexandra Pan, Office for Culture)
Material:Gouachefarbe
Porzellan
Porzellan
Technique:gemalt
Dimensions:
- Each miniature diameter: 4.5 cm
Clock diameter: 3 cm
Total height: 15 cm
Total width: 11.2 cm
Total depth: 1.2 cm
Physical description:Gouache on porcelain
Keyword:Figurative
Portrait
Portrait