An equerry to Louis, King of Holland, facing right in blue coat with gold-embroidered border and collar, gold-bordered white waistcoat and embroidered lace cravat, forward-combed brown hair, wearing the badge of Royal Dutch Order of the Union

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LOUIS-MARIE AUTISSIER (1772-1830)
An equerry to Louis, King of Holland, facing right in blue coat with gold-embroidered border and collar, gold-bordered white waistcoat and embroidered lace cravat, forward-combed brown hair, wearing the badge of Royal Dutch Order of the Union
signed 'Autissier p.t' (lower right)
rectangular, 26 x 17/8 in. (56 x 47 mm.), stamped gilt-metal mount

Provenance

Marcus Kappel Collection, Berlin, in 1906.

Exhibited

Berlin, Friedmann & Weber, Miniaturen Ausstellung, 1906, no. 494 (as portrait of a Napoleonic General, lent by Marcus Kappel, Berlin).

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Lot Essay

The Order of the Union, founded in November 1807 by Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland, was abolished in 1811. Another miniature by Autissier depicting an officer wearing this order is illustrated in the exhibition catalogue Autissier et le portrait miniature romantique en Belgique, Brussels, Kredietbank Gallery, 1997, no. 15.

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