A young officer, in dark green coat with pale green collar and gold epaulettes, wearing the breast-star of the Royal Order of Spain

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JOSEPH-MARIE BOUTON (FRANCO-SPANISH, 1768-1832)
A young officer, in dark green coat with pale green collar and gold epaulettes, wearing the breast-star of the Royal Order of Spain
signed 'Bouton' (mid right)
on ivory
2¼ in. (57 mm.) diam., gilt-metal mount

Provenance

Alfred von Strasser-Sánczi Collection, Vienna, 1905, 1906, 1931.
Collection of Architect Kurt Jahn (1903-1978), Darmstadt, inv. J.8.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue De Bouton à Goya - Cinq miniaturistes à la cour de Madrid, Toulouse, Musée Paul Dupuy, 1960, p. 30. no. LXX.

Exhibited

Troppau (Silesia), Kaiser Franz Josef-Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Ausstellung von Miniaturen, 1905, no. 162.
Berlin, Salons Friedmann & Weber, Miniaturen-Ausstellung, 1906, no. 893.
Vienna, Nationalbibliothek, Das gemalte Kleinporträt, 1931, no. 67.
Darmstadt, Residenzschloss, 1974-2007, inv. no. 21046.

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Lot Essay

The Royal Order of Spain was created by Joseph Bonaparte during his short reign in Spain. It was abolished in Spain in 1814 by King Ferdinand VII and prohibited in France by King Louis XVIII from 9 July 1814.

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