Live Auction 6337Stephane Boudin at 5 Belgrave Square, Les Objets de l'Empire & Mount Kennedy, Ireland. Three Private Collections
German School, circa 1800
Lot 14

German School, circa 1800

Portrait of a man in uniform, three-quarter-length, standing by a bust of Emperor Francis I of Austria

Closed16 March 2012

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GBP 2,000

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German School, circa 1800
Portrait of a man in uniform, three-quarter-length, standing by a bust of Emperor Francis I of Austria
with coat-of-arms bearing the Latin motto 'RECTE ET CONSTANTER' (lower left)
oil on canvas
46½ x 35½ in. (118.1 x 90.2 cm.)
in its original frame

Specialist note

The motto 'Recte et Constanter' belongs to the Austrian Braun family. We are grateful to Jan van Helmont for the alternative suggestion that the sitter may have been a liveried court officer whose ancestors had been in the service of the Dowager Empress Amalia Wilhelmina of Austria (1673-1742), née von Braunschweig-Lüneburg, widow of Emperor Joseph I; the Dowager Empress also used this motto.