Tsar Alexander I of Russia (1777-1825), facing left in black coat with gold-embroidered red collar and red-bordered gold epaulettes, wearing the blue moiré sash and breast star of the Russian Order of St. Andrew, the Swedish Order of the Sword, the Russian Order of St. George the Russian 1812 Commemmorative Medal, the Austrian Military Order of Maria Theresia and the Prussian 1813 Iron Cross

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CIRCLE OF HENRI BENNER, CIRCA 1815
Tsar Alexander I of Russia (1777-1825), facing left in black coat with gold-embroidered red collar and red-bordered gold epaulettes, wearing the blue moiré sash and breast star of the Russian Order of St. Andrew, the Swedish Order of the Sword, the Russian Order of St. George the Russian 1812 Commemmorative Medal, the Austrian Military Order of Maria Theresia and the Prussian 1813 Iron Cross
oval, 1 15/16 in. (49 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount within rectangular black wood frame

Provenance

Mr Wolffenberg, former owner of the auction house Rudolph Lepke, Berlin.
Thence by descent.

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Lot Essay

For a similar miniature of Tsar Alexander I, see K. E. Schaffers-Bodenhausen/M. E. Tiethoff-Spliethoff, The Portrait Miniatures in the Collection of the House of Orange-Nassau, Zwolle, 1993, illustrated p. 316, no. 389.

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