Live Auction 6966Important Portrait Miniatures and Objects of Vertu
ANTON FRIEDRICH KÖNIG (GERMAN, 1722-1787)
Lot 185VARIOUS PROPERTIES

ANTON FRIEDRICH KÖNIG (GERMAN, 1722-1787)

Frederick the Great (1712-1786), King of Prussia 1740-1786, three-quarter length in the uniform of the Prussian Life Guards, red-lined blue coat with red collar, black trousers, grey sash tied around his waist, holding a glove in his gloved left hand, his sword beside him and a cane, wearing the star of the Royal Prussian Order of the Black Eagle, black tricorn hat adorned with black rosette in his powdered hair

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ANTON FRIEDRICH KÖNIG (GERMAN, 1722-1787)
Frederick the Great (1712-1786), King of Prussia 1740-1786, three-quarter length in the uniform of the Prussian Life Guards, red-lined blue coat with red collar, black trousers, grey sash tied around his waist, holding a glove in his gloved left hand, his sword beside him and a cane, wearing the star of the Royal Prussian Order of the Black Eagle, black tricorn hat adorned with black rosette in his powdered hair
rectangular, 3 11/16 x 2¾ in. (93 x 69 mm.), gilt-metal frame

Günther Muthmann, Wuppertal; part II, Sotheby's, Zurich, 13 November 1979, lot 125.

Specialist note

An identical version is in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm (see M. Olausson [ed.], Europeiskt Miniatyrmaleri, Stockholm, 1994, p. 139, fig. 114).