Hüssener, Auguste: Four portraits of Russian army commanders during the Napoleonic Wars

Unknown artist

Four breast images in two rows on one sheet: Commander of the Russian Army during the Napoleonic Wars, stabbed after Auguste Hüssener’s unknown submission, all depicted in uniform and with awards.<br /;> These are: <br /;> Ludwig Adolf Peter Graf von Sayn-Wittgenstein (1768/69-1843), General Field Marshal of the Russian Army (top left), <br /;> Mikhail Illarionovich Kutusow (1763-1813), who fell as a general marshal of the Russian Arnee during the fighting (top right in profile to the left), <br /;> Alexander Ivanovich Count Ostermann-Tolstoi (1770/72-1857), General of the Russian Army (bottom left), <br /;> Alexander Ivanovich Chernyschow (1785-1858), general of the Russian army, diplomat (bottom on the right).<br /;> Unfortunately, the connection in which the portraits were published could not be determined. The depicted are related in their directions of view, so possibly the leaves were not cut, but formed a leaf sequence in this size, which is far more difficult to prove than books. State pressure before full writing.<br /;> <br /;> Old stock of the Märkisches Museum. <br /;> <br /;> Referred to re. u. at the opening of the Chernischow "Auguste Hüssener sc., "Mi. u. handwritten probably by Auguste Hüssener “Count Witgenstein/Prince Kutozov-Molenskoi/Ostermann-Tolstoy/Chernischow, Alexander Ivanovich” (with revisions of later hand).