Continental School, circa 1770

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Continental School, circa 1770
A Member of the Order of the Teutonic Knights, possibly Duke Charles-Alexander of Lorraine, facing right in breastplate and gold-bordered orange coat, white shirt and purple ruff, wearing the jewel and breast-star of the Order of the Teotonic Knights, gold-bordered black tricorn hat under his left arm, powdered hair
enamel on copper, gilt-metal moutn withing rectangular ebonized wood frame
oval, 2in. (51mm.)

拍品专文

The sitter bears close resemblance to Charles-Alexander (1712-1780), Duke of Lorraine, who married in 1744 Archduchess Maria-Anna, Empress Maria-Theresia's younger sister who died in the year of the marriage. He was also the brother of Emperor Francis Stephen, Maria-Theresia's consort. A General Governor of the Austrian Netherlands, he became High Master of the Order of the Teutonic Knights.