A portrait of a staff officer Oil on canvas, unsigned. Chest piece in a field gray coat M 1910 with gray crown buttons, folding collar and silver braids as well as braided silver shoulder pieces and applied decorations (Austrian Military Cross of Merit with swords, EK 1 and long, ten-piece field buckle), head en face. In a black profile frame (bumped several times). Painted surface partially rubbed, traces of use and age. Image dimensions 60 x 45 cm, frame dimensions 76.5 x 60 cm. Condition: II

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