GERMAN SCHOOL, CIRCA 1765/1770

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PROPERTY FROM A MILANESE PRIVATE COLLECTION

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GERMAN SCHOOL, CIRCA 1765/1770
A family group: the father in the centre in gold-embroidered blue coat, wearing the blue sash of the Spanish Order of Charles III, the lady to his left in peach dress with white bows, a child in chocolate brown dress on her lap, in front a child in white with a black bonnet tied beneath his chin, holding cards in his right hand, to his left a young girl in blue dress with slashed sleeves and black headdress, in her right hand a compass resting on an uncurled map of Europe on a table, behind her a lady in red-trimmed black dress with coral necklace, wearing a black cap on her upswept powdered hair; draped green curtain background
on ivory
rectangular, 1 15/16 x 2¾ in. (49 x 71 mm.), gilt-metal easel frame with brown velvet surround and giltwood slip

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Lot Essay

The traditional identification of the gentleman in the centre of the composition has been Ferdinand I, King of the Two Sicilies (1751-1825), however given the apparent age of the sitter and the presence of a map of a European territory, he is more likely to be an ambassador or politician.

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