Frederick the Great (1712-1786), in blue velvet coat, ermine-bordered red cloak draped over his right shoulder, wearing the orange moiré sash and breast-star of the Royal Prussian Order of the Black Eagle, black hat with silver brocade in his powdered wig en queue

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ATTRIBUTED TO CARL FRIEDRICH THIENPONDT (GERMAN, 1730-1796)
Frederick the Great (1712-1786), in blue velvet coat, ermine-bordered red cloak draped over his right shoulder, wearing the orange moiré sash and breast-star of the Royal Prussian Order of the Black Eagle, black hat with silver brocade in his powdered wig en queue
enamel on copper
oval, 2 7/16 in. (61 mm.) high, modern gilt-metal frame with reeded border

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Lot Essay

This portrait is derived from Antoine Pesne's full-length oil painting of the young king painted after 1745, illustrated in E. Berckenhagen et al., Antoine Pesne, Berlin, 1958, pl. 174, no. 115.
The most comprehensive account on Thienpondt is to be found in R. Michaelis, '"...seinen Bildnissen sehr viel Stärke zu geben weiss" - Der Berliner Miniaturmaler Carl Friedrich Thienpondt (1730-1796)', Weltkunst, 12, 1 November 2003, pp. 1720-1723.

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