David Klöcker von Ehrenstrahl, attributed to - Portrait of King Karl XI of Sweden with the Order of the Garter - image-1

Lot 69 Dα

David Klöcker von Ehrenstrahl, attributed to - Portrait of King Karl XI of Sweden with the Order of the Garter

Auction 1126 - overview Cologne
20.03.2019, 14:30 - Paintings 15th to 19th Centuries
Estimate: 4.000 € - 5.000 €
Result: 4.960 € (incl. premium)
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David Klöcker von Ehrenstrahl, attributed to

Portrait of King Karl XI of Sweden with the Order of the Garter

Oil on canvas (relined). 126 x 102 cm.

Karl XI (1655-1697) from the Wittelsbach house was the son of King Karl Gustav X of Sweden and his wife Hedwig of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp. He became King of Sweden when he was only five years old upon his father's death in 1660. This imposing three-quarter length portrait shows the monarch in an ornamental breastplate and red cloak with a marshal's baton and the Order of the Garter which he received in 1668.

Provenance

Auctioned by Sotheby's, London, 17.4.1996, lot 176. – Italian private collection.