Tsar Alexander I of Russia (1777-1825), in black coat with red collar embroidered with gold oak leaves, gold epaulettes, black stock, wearing the blue moiré silk sash of the Russian Order of St. Andrew and the breast star of this order superimposed on the Order of the Garter, combined with the Swedish Royal Order of the Sword, the badges of St. George of Russia, the Russian campaign medal of 1812, the Maria Theresia and the badge of the Royal Prussian Order of the Iron Cross

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HENRI BENNER (FRENCH, 1776-1829)
Tsar Alexander I of Russia (1777-1825), in black coat with red collar embroidered with gold oak leaves, gold epaulettes, black stock, wearing the blue moiré silk sash of the Russian Order of St. Andrew and the breast star of this order superimposed on the Order of the Garter, combined with the Swedish Royal Order of the Sword, the badges of St. George of Russia, the Russian campaign medal of 1812, the Maria Theresia and the badge of the Royal Prussian Order of the Iron Cross
signed and dated 'Benner. 1817.' (mid-right)
on card
oval, 5¼ in. (135 mm.) high, rectangular cast gilt-bronze frame

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A similar miniature of the sitter signed and dated 1818 by Jacques-Marie le Gros is in the Wallace Collection, London (G. Reynolds, Collection of Miniatures, London, 1980, no. 225, illustrated p. 242. A similar miniature of the sitter by Jean-Baptiste Isabey painted in Vienna in 1815 is in the Louvre.

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