Austrian School, circa 1770/1775

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Austrian School, circa 1770/1775

Archduke Maximilian of Austria as a boy, seated half length facing left, in gold-bordered red coat with gold-embroidered blue cuffs, gold-edged waistcoat, frilled lace cravat, powdered wig en queue, wearing the breast star and the jewel of the Order of the Teutonic Knights, holding a book in his hands

on parchment, rectangular, 3 1/2 x 3in. (89 x 75mm.), gilt-wood and plaster frame set with flower bouquet spandrels

拍品专文

Maximilian II Franz (1756-1801), Archduke of Austria, last Elector Archbishop of Cologne and Prince Elector of Münster, 16th and youngest child of Empress Maria-Theresia (see lot 22). He entered the Order of the Teutonic Knights in 1769 and succeeded his uncle Karl Alexander, Duke of Lorraine as a Hoch-und Deutschmeister of the Order in 1780. A sponsor of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven, he ruled in Bonn and Münster from 1784 until he had to emigrate after the invasion of his countries by the French Revolutionary troops.