Lot 24: HENRI BENNER (FRENCH, 1776 - AFTER 1833)

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).

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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