RUSSIAN SCHOOL, 18TH CENTURY AFTER GIOVANNI BATTISTA LAMPI (ITALIAN, 1751-1830)

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RUSSIAN SCHOOL, 18TH CENTURY AFTER GIOVANNI BATTISTA LAMPI (ITALIAN, 1751-1830)
Baron Charles Yakowlewitch Bühler (1749-1811), in blue coat, frilled white cravat, wearing the breast-star and ribbon of the Imperial Russian Order of St Vladimir, powdered hair worn en queue
on ivory
2 3/8 in. (66 mm.) diam., gilt-metal mount within rectangular ebonised wood frame with gilt spandrels

Provenance

Prince Alexander Drucki-Lubecki (1861-1926) Collection, Warsaw.

Exhibited

Warsaw, The Society for the Protection of Historical Monuments, Pamietnik Wystawy Miniatur, Oraz Tkanin I Haftow (Exhibition of Portrait Miniatures, fabric and embroidery), 1912, no. 962, illustrated pl. XXXIV.

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Lot Essay

The present miniature is after a now lost portrait painted by Lampi in Vienna in 1789 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue Un ritrattista nell'Europa delle corti. Giovanni Battista Lampi 1751-1830, Castello del Buonconsiglio, 2001, p. 66 fig. 56). The enamellist Dachtler copied this portrait twice, one version is in the Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva, and one is in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.

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