ERICH CORRENS (GERMAN, 1821-1877)

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ERICH CORRENS (GERMAN, 1821-1877)
Prince Charles of Bavaria (1795-1875), in the uniform of the 1st Bavarian Cuirassier Regiment, in armour breast-plate over blue jacket, wearing the red sash of the Royal Bavarian Order of St Hubert and the badge of the Royal Bavarian Order of Max-Joseph, cream cloak, brown hair and moustache
signed and dated 'fecit / E. Correns, 1851' (lower right)
on card
rectangular, 9¼ x 7.1/8 in. (233 x 183 mm.), gilt-wood frame with plaque, which reads 'Prinz Carl 1851 v. E. Correns'
A typed label on the reverse reads: 'Prinz Carl von Bayern (geb. 1795, gest. 1875) in / der Uniform des Oberst-Inhabers des 1. Bayerischen / Kürassier-Regiments. / Besitzer von Tegernsee und Wildbad Kreuth. General= / feldmarschall und Inspekteur der Bayerischen Armee. / Sohn König Maximilian I. von Bayern. / Original-Miniature (Nr. 348) aus dem Nachlass König / Ludwig II. von Bayern; gemalt von Erich Correns / (1821-1877).'

Provenance

King Ludwig II of Bavaria (1845-1886), reg. no. 348.
Acquired in Bavaria from a Private Collection.

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Lot Essay

The sitter was the second son of King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (see lots 132 and 133) and Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt. In 1823, he married Marie Anna Sophie de Bayersdorf, née Pétin (1796-1838), with whom he had three children, and in 1859, married Henriette von Frankenburg, née Schoeller.
Another portrait of the present sitter by Eduard von Ron is illustrated in G. Biermann and Brinckmann, Die Miniaturen-Sammlung Seiner Königlichen Hoheit des Grossherzogs Ernst Ludwig von Hessen und bei Rhein, Leipzig, 1917, pl. 144, no. 451.

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