Frederick the Great (1712-1786), King of Prussia 1740-1786, three-quarter length in the uniform of the Prussian Life Guards, red-lined blue coat with red collar, black trousers, holding a stick in his gloved right hand and his left hand resting on a silver sash, his sword beside him, wearing the star of the Royal Prussian Order of the Black Eagle, black tricorn hat adorned with black rosette in his powdered hair

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ANTON FRIEDRICH KÖNIG (GERMAN, 1722-1787)
Frederick the Great (1712-1786), King of Prussia 1740-1786, three-quarter length in the uniform of the Prussian Life Guards, red-lined blue coat with red collar, black trousers, holding a stick in his gloved right hand and his left hand resting on a silver sash, his sword beside him, wearing the star of the Royal Prussian Order of the Black Eagle, black tricorn hat adorned with black rosette in his powdered hair
rectangular, 3 3/16 x 2 5/8 in. (81 x 66 mm.), gilt-metal frame

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Lot Essay

Another three-quarter length miniature of the Alter Fritz by König, signed, is illustrated in the exhibition catalogue Kaiserlicher Kunstbesitz, Berlin, Charlottenburg Castle, 1991, no. 57, and for another one, see M. Olausson [ed.], Europeiskt Miniatyrmaleri, Stockholm, 1994, p. 139, fig. 114.

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