Live Auction 5377Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
HENRI BENNER (FRENCH, 1776 - AFTER 1833)
Lot 24

HENRI BENNER (FRENCH, 1776 - AFTER 1833)

Closed31 May 2012

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GBP 10,625

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HENRI BENNER (FRENCH, 1776 - AFTER 1833)
Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich of Russia (1798-1849), in dark blue uniform with red facings, gold embroidered collar, gold epaulettes, wearing the blue moiré sash and breast-star of the Imperial Russian Order of St Andrew
on ivory
oval, 1 7/8 in. (48 mm.) high, rectangular ormolu easel-stand frame with star and foliate border

Christie's, Geneva, 10 May 1988, lot 244 (erroneously as Tsar Nicholas I of Russia).

Specialist note

Fourth son and youngest child of Tsar Paul I and Maria Feodorovna, he married in 1824 Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna, née Duchess Frederika Charlotte Maria of Württemberg and had five children. He was a younger brother of Tsar Nicholas I (see lot 25).