Live Auction 5962Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
AUGUSTIN-CHRISTIAN RITT (RUSSIAN, 1765-1799)
Lot 210 THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR

AUGUSTIN-CHRISTIAN RITT (RUSSIAN, 1765-1799)

Closed28 November 2012

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AUGUSTIN-CHRISTIAN RITT (RUSSIAN, 1765-1799)
Anna Feodorovna (1781-1860), Grand Duchess Constantine of Russia, née Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield, in white dress with blue jacket and white underdress, red shawl, small gold hoop earring and triple gold chain necklace, wearing a red, blue and white bandeau in her long flowing curling brown hair adorned with a white ostrich feather; arranging pale pink roses in an urn, foliate background
signed 'Ritt' (lower left)
on ivory
4 1/16 in. (103 mm.) diam., gilt-metal frame with easel stand

Christie's, Geneva, 28 April 1976, lot 107.
Robert D. Brewster (1916-1995) Collection, New York; Sotheby's, London, 14 December 1995, lot 67.

Specialist note

Anna Feodorovna was the daughter of Franz, Duke of Saxe-Saalfeld-Coburg and his second wife, Augusta, née Countess Reuss zu Ebersdorf. Instigated by Empress Catherine II, she married in 1796, the seventeen-year old Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich (1779-1831). They had an unhappy marriage and they first separated in 1799 and then finally in 1801 when she returned to her native home. She had two illegitimate children in 1808 and 1812, the latter whilst living in Switzerland. Her marriage to Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich was annulled in 1820 and he re-married. She died in Elfenau, near Berne on 15 August 1860.