A young dignitary, in black coat, white waistcoat and knotted cravat, wearing the breast-star and red sash of the Royal Wurttembergian Order of the Golden Eagle and the jewel and the breast-star of a Grand Commander of the Order of the Royal Crown of Westphalia

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LOUIS FRANÇOIS AUBRY (FRENCH, 1767-1851)
A young dignitary, in black coat, white waistcoat and knotted cravat, wearing the breast-star and red sash of the Royal Wurttembergian Order of the Golden Eagle and the jewel and the breast-star of a Grand Commander of the Order of the Royal Crown of Westphalia
signed and dated 'Aubry 1810' (lower left)
oval, 5 1/8 in. (131 mm.) high, gilt-metal foliate mount within rectangular wood panel with gilt-metal spandrels

Provenance

Madame Bléhaut, Annonay; Sotheby's, Geneva, 6 May 1981, lot 171.

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Lot Essay

The sitter is wearing two extremely ephemeral orders; the Order of the Crown of Westphalia was founded by Napoléon's brother Jérôme (see lot 254), King of Westphalia, on 25 December 1809. Wearing this order was soon prohibited, in Electoral Hesse from 31 December 1813 and in Prussia from 26 February 1815 onward.

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