FRANZ LUDWIG CLOSE (1753 - after 1822)
FRANZ LUDWIG CLOSE (1753 - after 1822)

A young officer, facing right in blue coat with silver frogging, silver waistcoat and frilled cravat, powdered wig en queue

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FRANZ LUDWIG CLOSE (1753 - after 1822)
A young officer, facing right in blue coat with silver frogging, silver waistcoat and frilled cravat, powdered wig en queue
signed and dated on the backing paper 'pt D'aprs Nature par F. L. Close Dresde 1782.'
oval, 16 in. (36 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame with bright-cut inner border and beaded outer border
Provenance
Richard Forberg, Leipzig (in 1912).
Weinmller, Munich, sale 153, 9 May 1974, lot 1007.
Exhibited
Berlin, Reuss & Pollack, Miniaturen-Ausstellung, 1912, no. 87 (lent by Richard Forberg).

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