Grand-Duke Charles of Baden (1786-1818), in red-bordered blue coat with gold-embroidered red collar, gold epaulettes, black stock, wearing the breast-star of the Grand-Ducal Baden Order of Fidelity, curling brown hair and sideburns

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GERMAN SCHOOL, CIRCA 1810/1815
Grand-Duke Charles of Baden (1786-1818), in red-bordered blue coat with gold-embroidered red collar, gold epaulettes, black stock, wearing the breast-star of the Grand-Ducal Baden Order of Fidelity, curling brown hair and sideburns
oval, 2 3/16 in. (56 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount

Provenance

Christie's, Geneva, 13 November 1990, lot 275.

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Lot Essay

Charles Frederick, Grand-Duke of Baden 1811-1818, had to marry Emperor Napoléon's step-daughter, Stéphanie de Beauharnais in 1806. As Charles had more interest in young men in uniform than in his wife, the mariage was not particularly happy, furthermore because Charles's mother despised her 'parvenue' daughter-in-law profoundly.

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