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GIOVANNI DOMENICO BOSSI (ITALIAN, 1765-1853)
Alexander I (1777-1825), Tsar of Russia 1801-1825, in dark green uniform with red collar, gold epaulettes, wearing the blue moiré sash and breast-star of the Imperial Russian Order of St Andrew and the Russian Military Order of St George
Signed and dated ‘D: Bossi Pinxit / 1804’ (lower right)
On ivory
Oval, 53 mm. high, Swedish silver-gilt frame, the reverse engraved ‘Alexander I / sign. Bossi’
Alexander I (1777-1825), Tsar of Russia 1801-1825, in dark green uniform with red collar, gold epaulettes, wearing the blue moiré sash and breast-star of the Imperial Russian Order of St Andrew and the Russian Military Order of St George
Signed and dated ‘D: Bossi Pinxit / 1804’ (lower right)
On ivory
Oval, 53 mm. high, Swedish silver-gilt frame, the reverse engraved ‘Alexander I / sign. Bossi’
Provenance
Charles Louis Fouché d’Otrante, 6th Duc d’Otrante (1877-1950).
Thence by family descent to the present owner.
Thence by family descent to the present owner.
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