Live Auction 6903IMPORTANT GOLD BOXES,OBJECTS OF VERTU & PORTRAIT MINIATURES
CIRCLE OF HENRI BENNER, CIRCA 1815
Lot 119

CIRCLE OF HENRI BENNER, CIRCA 1815

Tsar Alexander I of Russia (1777-1825), in black coat with gold-embroidered red collar and red-bordered gold epaulettes, wearing the blue moiré sash and breast star of the Russian Order of St. Andrew, the Swedish Order of the Sword, the Russian Order of St. George, the Russian 1812 Commemorative Medal, the Austrian Military Order of Maria Theresia and the Prussian 1813 Iron Cross

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GBP 2,151

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CIRCLE OF HENRI BENNER, CIRCA 1815
Tsar Alexander I of Russia (1777-1825), in black coat with gold-embroidered red collar and red-bordered gold epaulettes, wearing the blue moiré sash and breast star of the Russian Order of St. Andrew, the Swedish Order of the Sword, the Russian Order of St. George, the Russian 1812 Commemorative Medal, the Austrian Military Order of Maria Theresia and the Prussian 1813 Iron Cross
oval, 1 15/16 in. (49 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame, the reverse with plaited hair

Mr Wolffenberg, former owner of the auction house Rudolph Lepke, Berlin.

Specialist note

For a similar miniature of Tsar Alexander I, see K. E. Schaffers-Bodenhausen/M. E. Tiethoff-Spliethoff, The Portrait Miniatures in the Collection of the House of Orange-Nassau, Zwolle, 1993, illustrated p. 315, no. 389.