The Ambassador, Baron Erik Magnus Staël von Holstein (1749-1802)

A watercolor on paper of Germaine de Staël's husband and Swedish ambassador in Paris, Erik Magnus Staël von Holstein, wearing a Werther costume and sitting with a melancholic expression on a park bench below the monument to his first-born daughter Gustavine, who died at the age of two in 1789.

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Citation: The Ambassador, Baron Erik Magnus Staël von Holstein (1749-1802), 1792, by Nicholas Lafrensen (1737-1807), National Museum of Sweden, 25 x 20 cm., watercolor on paper, https://collection.nationalmuseum.se:443/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=25176&viewType=detailView.
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