Live Auction 6966Important Portrait Miniatures and Objects of Vertu
ATTRIBUTED TO ANTOINE PESNE (1683-1757)
Lot 188

ATTRIBUTED TO ANTOINE PESNE (1683-1757)

Frederick the Great (1712-1786), King of Prussia 1740-1786, in blue velvet coat, wearing the orange moiré sash and breast star of the Royal Prussian Order of the Black Eagle

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ATTRIBUTED TO ANTOINE PESNE (1683-1757)
Frederick the Great (1712-1786), King of Prussia 1740-1786, in blue velvet coat, wearing the orange moiré sash and breast star of the Royal Prussian Order of the Black Eagle
oval, 1 3/16 in. (30 mm.) high, silver mount within rectangular black stone paperweight

Sotheby's, London, 7 April 1994, lot 161 (part lot).

Specialist note

A miniature undoubtedly by the same hand, in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, has recently been identified as a work of Antoine Pesne; see R. Michaelis, Antoine Pesne (1683-1757): Die Werke des preußischen Hofmalers in der Berliner Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, 2003, pp. 55-57.