ANTON FRIEDRICH KÖNIG (GERMAN, 1722-1787)
Frederick the Great (1712-1786), King of Prussia 1740-1786, in the uniform of the Prussian Life Guards, red-lined blue coat with red collar, black trousers, grey sash tied around his waist, sword at his side, wearing the orange moiré sash and breast-star of the Royal Prussian Order of the Black Eagle and the cross of the Royal Prussian Order 'Pour le Mérite', black tricorn hat adorned with black rosette in his powdered hair, holding in his left hand a map of Bohemia, a map of Saxony below, and a marshal's baton in his right, a plumed helmet to one side, within a military tent in a landscape
signed and dated on the mount '1768' (lower left) and 'A.F Konig Fecit Berl' (lower right)
on ivory
rectangular, 5.9/16 x 4.1/8 in. (140 x 105 mm.), original gilt-wood and gesso frame
ANTON FRIEDRICH KÖNIG (GERMAN, 1722-1787)
Frederick the Great (1712-1786), King of Prussia 1740-1786, in the uniform of the Prussian Life Guards, red-lined blue coat with red collar, black trousers, grey sash tied around his waist, sword at his side, wearing the orange moiré sash and breast-star of the Royal Prussian Order of the Black Eagle and the cross of the Royal Prussian Order 'Pour le Mérite', black tricorn hat adorned with black rosette in his powdered hair, holding in his left hand a map of Bohemia, a map of Saxony below, and a marshal's baton in his right, a plumed helmet to one side, within a military tent in a landscape
signed and dated on the mount '1768' (lower left) and 'A.F Konig Fecit Berl' (lower right)
on ivory
rectangular, 5.9/16 x 4.1/8 in. (140 x 105 mm.), original gilt-wood and gesso frame
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