JOSEF ANTON MUXEL (GERMAN, 1786-1842), AFTER KARL JOSEPH STIELER (GERMAN, 1781-1858)
JOSEF ANTON MUXEL (GERMAN, 1786-1842), AFTER KARL JOSEPH STIELER (GERMAN, 1781-1858)

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JOSEF ANTON MUXEL (GERMAN, 1786-1842), AFTER KARL JOSEPH STIELER (GERMAN, 1781-1858)

Ludwig I (1786-1868), King of Bavaria 1825-1848, as Crown Prince, in black coat, wearing the breast-star of the Royal Bavarian Order of St Hubert
Signed and dated 'J. Muxel 1816' (lower right, concealed by frame)
Oil on canvas
Rectangular, 185 x 144 mm., gilt-wood frame with oval aperture
Provenance
Sotheby's, London, 28 November 1979, lot 231.

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Lot Essay

The sitter was the son of King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (see previous lot) and his first wife Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt. He was king of Bavaria from 1825 until the 1848 revolutions in the German states. In 1810, he married Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, with whom he had nine children. For Stieler's original portrait, see U. von Hase, Joseph Stieler 1781-1858, Munich, 1998, figs. 64 and 65. In 1820 Muxel was appointed painter to the Court of Bavaria.

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