Live Auction 5962Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
C. H. N. OPPERMANN (GERMAN, FL. 1790-1820)
Lot 207 THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR

C. H. N. OPPERMANN (GERMAN, FL. 1790-1820)

Closed28 November 2012

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GBP 15,000

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C. H. N. OPPERMANN (GERMAN, FL. 1790-1820)
Alexander I (1777-1825), Tsar of Russia 1801-1825, in dark uniform with red collar, gold epaulettes, wearing the blue moiré sash and breast-star of the Imperial Russian Order of St Andrew and the Russian Military Order of St George
signed and dated 'C. Oppermann. 1808' (mid-right)
on ivory
oval, 2¼ in. (56 mm.) high, silver frame

Sotheby's, Geneva, 12 November 1980, lot 213.

Specialist note

Oppermann worked at the court of St Petersburg from 1807 where he painted Tsar Alexander I and other high-ranking members. Another miniature by Oppermann of the tsar, dated 1809, is in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden (inv. no. M 140).