Lot Essay
For a miniature of the sitter's mother, Catherine the Great, see lot 137, and for two miniatures of Paul's first son Alexander, see lots 197 and 254.
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Paul I (1754-1801), Tsar of Russia 1796-1801, in profile to the right in coat and frilled cravat, powdered wig en queue, painted en grisaille on a blue ground
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RUSSIAN SCHOOL, CIRCA 1800
Paul I (1754-1801), Tsar of Russia 1796-1801, in profile to the right in coat and frilled cravat, powdered wig en queue, painted en grisaille on a blue ground
oval, .11/16 in. (17 mm.) high, set in the bezel of a gold ring
Paul I (1754-1801), Tsar of Russia 1796-1801, in profile to the right in coat and frilled cravat, powdered wig en queue, painted en grisaille on a blue ground
oval, .11/16 in. (17 mm.) high, set in the bezel of a gold ring
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