Lot Essay
Denis Davydov, descended from a great family of Russian nobility, was a celebrated soldier-poet of the Napoleonic Wars.
FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY
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Russian School
First half 19th century
Denis Davydov (1784-1839), in black uniform with a collar embroidered with silver oak leaves, silver epaulettes, wearing the badge of St. George and other orders, watercolor on ivory, apparently unsigned, in a gilt-metal mounted ebonized wood frame
3 in. (7.6 cm.) high, excluding frame
First half 19th century
Denis Davydov (1784-1839), in black uniform with a collar embroidered with silver oak leaves, silver epaulettes, wearing the badge of St. George and other orders, watercolor on ivory, apparently unsigned, in a gilt-metal mounted ebonized wood frame
3 in. (7.6 cm.) high, excluding frame