After Alexander Roslin

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After Alexander Roslin
Portrait of Georg Adam Furst von Starhemberg of Austria, bust length, wearing the order of the Golden Fleece and the collar chain, badge and breast star of the Royal Hungarian order of Saint Stephen
oil on canvas, in a painted oval
30 x 24¾in (76.3 x 63cm)

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The sitter was Imperial Ambassador in Paris between 1755 and 1766 and was raised to the rank of Imperial Prince in 1765. For Roslin's three- quarter length original of 1762 in which the sitter is shown holding a letter in his left hand, see G. W. Lundberg, 'Roslin Live och Verk', 1957, III, number 159, page 33-34, and I, figure 75.

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