CARL-FRIEDRICH NAUMANN (GERMAN, 1813-1859)

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CARL-FRIEDRICH NAUMANN (GERMAN, 1813-1859)
Johann I (1801-1873), King of Saxony 1854-1873, in dark blue military uniform with silver-figured red collar and red-piped silver epaulettes, wearing the jewel of the Order of the Golden Fleece, the green moiré sash and breast-star of the Royal Saxon Order of the Rue Crown and the breast-star of the Royal Saxon Military Order of St Henry
signed 'C. Naumann.' (lower left)
on ivory
1¾in. (45 mm.) diam., gilt-metal frame

Provenance

Christie's, Geneva, 16 May 1995, lot 219.

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Lot Essay

The sitter was one of the sons of Duke Maximilian of Saxony and his wife Princess Caroline of Parma. In 1854, he succeeded his brother Frederick-Augustus II as King of Saxony. Among the children from his marriage to Princess Amalia of Bavaria, celebrated in 1822, were the future King Albert I of Saxony and Princess Elisabeth, later Duchess of Genoa. A miniature depicting the latter, also by Naumann, was in the Collection of the late King Umberto II of Italy, sold Sotheby's, Geneva, 12 November 1984, lot 73.
Carl-Friedrich Naumann (1813-1859) was appointed Court Miniaturist to the King of Saxony in 1855.

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