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A nobleman, possibly a Margrave of Ansbach, facing left in blue velvet coat with gold brocade border, pale blue waistcoat and lace cravat, wearing the red moiré sash and breast star of an order and, around his neck, the Order of Fidelity of Baden-Durlach, powdered wig en queue
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GERMAN SCHOOL, CIRCA 1760
A nobleman, possibly a Margrave of Ansbach, facing left in blue velvet coat with gold brocade border, pale blue waistcoat and lace cravat, wearing the red moiré sash and breast star of an order and, around his neck, the Order of Fidelity of Baden-Durlach, powdered wig en queue
on vellum
oval, 1 5/8 in. (40 mm.) high, gilt-brass frame
A nobleman, possibly a Margrave of Ansbach, facing left in blue velvet coat with gold brocade border, pale blue waistcoat and lace cravat, wearing the red moiré sash and breast star of an order and, around his neck, the Order of Fidelity of Baden-Durlach, powdered wig en queue
on vellum
oval, 1 5/8 in. (40 mm.) high, gilt-brass frame
Exhibited
Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Bildnisminiaturen aus niedersächsischem Privatbesitz, 1918, no. 276 (lent by Dr. Leo Catzenstein, Hanover).
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