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CARL HUMMEL DE BOURDON (AUSTRIAN, C. 1769 - 1840)
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CARL HUMMEL DE BOURDON (AUSTRIAN, C. 1769 - 1840)

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CARL HUMMEL DE BOURDON (AUSTRIAN, C. 1769 - 1840)

Archduke Charles of Austria, Duke of Teschen (1771-1847) as Grand Master of the Order of the Teutonic Knights, full-length, in armour, wearing the robes and insignia of the Order of the Teutonic Knights and the breast-star of the Imperial Austrian Order of Maria Theresa, holding a sword
Signed and dated 'C Humel 1801' (lower right)
On ivory
Rectangular, 168 x 125 mm., gilt-wood frame
Provenance
With City Galerie, Vienna, by 1982, as illustrated in the catalogue of the Salzburger Kunst- und Antiquitätenmesse, 1982, p. 136.
Literature
H. Fuchs, Die Österreichische Bildnisminiatur, von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart, Vienna, 1981, I, illustrated in colour p. 138, fig. 32 (sitter mis-identified).
H. Fuchs, 'Die österreichische Bildnisminiatur', Weltkunst, 1 November 1981, illustrated p. 3201.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

The sitter was the third son of Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II and Infanta Maria Luisa of Spain. In 1815, he married Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg, with whom he had seven children. He is remembered for his commandment and reformation of the Austrian army during the Napoleonic Wars.
The present miniature was painted in 1801, the year that the sitter was elected Hoch- und Deutschmeister of the Order of Teutonic Knights. In 1804, he was succeeded by his brother Archduke Anton Victor of Austria.

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