Portrait of Baron Otto Blome (1735-1803), bust-length, in a brown jacket embroidered with flowers, with the badge of an Order

The sitter was the Danish ambassador to France from 1770-93, and was one of the few foreign envoys to remain in Paris during the revolution. He then returned to his estates in Holstein, Denmark, and later filled the ambassadorial post in St. Petersburg from 1797-1800. Juel's larger, rectangular portrait of him, signed, inscribed and dated in the same way, in the Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Gottorp, depicts him in a burgundy velvet coat and white silk waistcoat, sitting at a writing desk (see C. Christensen et. al., Hvis engle kunne male...Jens Juel portrætkunst, Det Nationalhistoriske Museum pa Frederiksborg, 1996, p. 25, fig. 15, no. 36). Juel repeated his compositions in several instances and often utilised an oval format for his portraits.