AUSTRIAN SCHOOL, CIRCA 1785

Count Charles Pálffy, facing left in pink coat with mauve doublet, white shirt with wide lawn collar, red silk lined bordeaux red velvet cloak draped on his left shoulder, short powdered curled hair, wearing the gold chain of the Order of the Golden Fleece and the gold chain and breast-star of the Royal Hungarian Order of St. Stephen

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AUSTRIAN SCHOOL, CIRCA 1785
Count Charles Pálffy, facing left in pink coat with mauve doublet, white shirt with wide lawn collar, red silk lined bordeaux red velvet cloak draped on his left shoulder, short powdered curled hair, wearing the gold chain of the Order of the Golden Fleece and the gold chain and breast-star of the Royal Hungarian Order of St. Stephen
2½ in. (64 mm.) diam., die-stamped gilt-metal mount

拍品专文

A handwritten old label on the reverse reads 'Le Comte de Palfy, militaire autrichien auquel mon grand père M. de Lalande de Vernon fut attaché pendant l'émigrat[ion]'.
Charles Hieronymus Pálffy of Erdöd, Count of the Holy Roman Empire (1735-1816) was chancellor of Hungary until 1807, the year he was styled Prince Pálffy. He received the Order of the Golden Fleece in 1782 from Emperor Joseph II. Another miniature of Count Pálffy was in the Brewster Collection, Sotheby's Geneva, 15 November 1995, lot 268.