Archduke Charles Louis (1784-1864), in red-bordered brown coat with gold-embroidered red collar, white shirt and black collar, wearing the badge of the Order of the Golden Fleece suspended from a red ribbon pinned to his coat and the breast-star of the Royal Hungarian Order of St. Stephen

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ATTRIBUTED TO FRANZ LIEDER, CIRCA 1830
Archduke Charles Louis (1784-1864), in red-bordered brown coat with gold-embroidered red collar, white shirt and black collar, wearing the badge of the Order of the Golden Fleece suspended from a red ribbon pinned to his coat and the breast-star of the Royal Hungarian Order of St. Stephen
on paper
oval, 7¾ in. (195 mm.) high, wood frame with outer gilt-metal beaded border

Provenance

The estate of an Austrian lady; Christie's, Geneva, 25 May 1993, lot 158.

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Lot Essay

Archduke Louis, son of Emperor Leopold II of the Holy Roman Empire and his wife Maria Ludovika of Spain took part in the war against France 1805-1809. After the death of his elder brother, Emperor Francis I of Austria in 1835, he became president of the Regency committee during the reign of his insane nephew, Emperor Ferdinand I. A supporter of Metternich's conservative attitude, he retired from politics after the Revolution of 1848.

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