Portrait Ferdinand VII - King of Spain, Spanish... Lot 15

Portrait Ferdinand VII - King of Spain, Spanish Master, c. 1800, In oval 4,3 x 3,1 cm, gouache on ivory. Half profile, in red uniform with high collar and white neck ribbon. Narrow gilded metal frame. Mounted in additional decorative frame. Permission to sell ivory object is available. Please note that this lot is subject to CITES restrictions if it is to be exported from the EU. Siegfried Claßen Collection, Cologne. Lempertz Auction May 2019, Lot 272, formerly Bartel Collection, Göttingen, formerly Neuhaus Collection, Würzburg, formerly Umberto II Collection, King of Italy, Sotheby's Auction Geneva Nov. 12, 1984 Ferdinand VII (1784 San Ildefonso - 1833 Madrid) became King of Spain for only a few weeks in 1808 after his father Charles IV abdicated the throne; Napoleon's pressure forced him to return the crown to his father shortly thereafter. It was not until 1814 that Napoleon reinstated Ferdinand as King of Spain; his reign was characterized by absolutist rule.