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Sauerweid (Alexander Ivanovitch, 1783-1844). An Officer on the General Staff of the Saxon Army, circa 1810, watercolour and bodycolour on paper, with collector's mark to lower right corner of the Empress Alexandra Feoderovna, label to verso of The Covent Garden Gallery Ltd., 20 Russell Street, London, with printed exhibition caption, 392 x 337 mm (15 2/5 x 13 1/5 ins), mounted, framed and glazed (59 x 53 cm) (Quantity: 1) Provenance: From the collection of H.I.H. The Empress Alexandra Feodorovna (1872-1918); Collection of the late Christopher Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey; Private Collection. An inscription on the mount identifies the subject as 'General Schreibershofen'. Alexander Ivanovitch Sauerweid (1783-1844) was born in present-day Latvia, and trained at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts between 1806 and 1812. He settled in Saint Petersburg in 1814, where he was invited by Czar Alexander I to paint portraits of Russian soldiers and their uniforms. A set of 30 coloured aquatint engravings entitled The Saxon Army in 1810 after Sauerweid was published in Dresden in 1810 by Henry Ritner (Colas 2640) "of which no complete copies are known." The Saxon Army in 1810. Without place or date [Dresden: Henry Ritner, 1810], In Folio in brown half-binding with corners, 5-ribbed spine with title on morocco piece, Series of 30 plates engraved in aquatint and enhanced with colors mounted on tabs. "Very rare suite" according to Colas [2640] "of which no complete copies are known."