AFTER FRANZ KRÜGER, 1838

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A PORTRAIT OF EMPRESS ALEXANDRA FEODOROVNA
AFTER FRANZ KRÜGER, 1838
Oval, depicting Empress Alexandra Feodorovna in Russian court dress, in wood frame with applied Imperial double-headed eagles at the corners
indistinctly signed in Cyrillic, possibly '1838 [...] Roubetz'
on ivory
6¾ in. (17.1 cm.) high, including frame

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Lot Essay

The present portrait is after a well-known work by Franz Krüger (1797-1857) painted in 1838. For a lithograph see A. V. Morozov, Katalog moego sobraniia russkikh gravirovannykh litografirovannykh portretov, Moscow, 1912, I, pl. 107.

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