Anthony I (1755-1836), King of Saxony 1827-1836, in red coat with yellow facings of the Saxon Leibgrenadier-Regiment, silver-embroidered collar and silver epaulettes, white stock, wearing the jewel of the Order of the Golden Fleece and the green moiré sash and breast-star of the Royal Saxon Order of the Rue Crown

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ATTRIBUTED TO JEREMIA DAVID ALEXANDER FIORINO, CIRCA 1827
Anthony I (1755-1836), King of Saxony 1827-1836, in red coat with yellow facings of the Saxon Leibgrenadier-Regiment, silver-embroidered collar and silver epaulettes, white stock, wearing the jewel of the Order of the Golden Fleece and the green moiré sash and breast-star of the Royal Saxon Order of the Rue Crown
oval, 1 11/16 in. (43 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount

Provenance

Christie's, Geneva, 17 November 1992, lot 429.

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(ILLUSTRATED ON OPPOSITE PAGE)

Lot Essay

Anthony, a grandson of King Augustus III of Poland, succeeded his brother King Frederick Augustus I (see lot 216) as King of Saxony in 1827. A very similar signed miniature by Fiorino is illustrated in Gemäldegalerie Dresden Alte Meister, Leipzig, 1992, p. 449, inv. no. M 199 A. Both miniatures are part-copies of the oil painting by Carl Vogel von Vogelstein of 1827, in the Gemäldegalerie Dresden Neue Meister, inv. 3340.

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