Tsar Paul of Russia (1754-1801), in green uniform with pink lapels, wearing the sash and breast-star of the Imperial Russian Order of St. Andrew and the cross of the Order of Malta; together with Duke Frederick Francis I of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1756-1837), in blue uniform with yellow lapels, wearing the blue sash and breast-star of the Royal Danish Order of the Elephant (by Wilhelm August Christian Abel, German, 1748 - after 1803)

細節

EDWARD MILES (BRITISH, 1752-1828)
Tsar Paul of Russia (1754-1801), in green uniform with pink lapels, wearing the sash and breast-star of the Imperial Russian Order of St. Andrew and the cross of the Order of Malta; together with Duke Frederick Francis I of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1756-1837), in blue uniform with yellow lapels, wearing the blue sash and breast-star of the Royal Danish Order of the Elephant (by Wilhelm August Christian Abel, German, 1748 - after 1803)
ovals, 1 3/8 in. (34 mm.) high, gilt-metal mounts set in the cover of a circular composition bonbonnière, Russian or German, circa 1799

注意事項

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

拍品專文

The miniature of Duke Frederick Francis is after Domenico Bossi (see Christie's, Geneva, 29 November 1982, lot 127), another copy of which by Abel, signed, is in the Kunsthalle, Hamburg (illustrated in Katalog der alten Meister der Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, 1956, no. 346). A further copy is in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm. Edward Miles worked in St. Petersburg as court painter from 1797 to circa 1806.
Duke Frederick Francis's eldest surviving son Frederick was married in 1799 to Tsar Paul's second daughter Helena Pavlovna and it may be assumed that the present box was commissioned for this occasion.