Live Auction 1162Centuries of Style, Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
GERMAN SCHOOL
Lot 148

GERMAN SCHOOL

Closed27 November 2013

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GBP 4,750

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GERMAN SCHOOL
Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742-1819), in military uniform, gold-embroidered collar, black cloak wrapped around his shoulders, wearing an order, with white hair and grey moustache
on ivory
oval, 3 in. (76 mm.) high, in a gilt-metal easel-stand frame with foliate surmount

Specialist note

The sitter was a distinguished German military leader, famed for his decisive action in campaigns against Napoleon I at the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig in 1813 and at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, with the Duke of Wellington.
Another version signed with monogram 'IS' probably for Joseph Sonntag was sold from the Günther Collection, Frankfurt, and was offered Lempertz, Cologne, 23 March 1991, lot 51.