Oil on wooden board attached to a beautiful hand carved and gilt frame. Image size excluding the frame is 22 x 37,5 cm. Signed and dated in the lower right hand corner. Coat of arms in the upper left hand corner. Some insignificant surface wear. Varnish a bit cracked. Good color. Wear to frame, possibly incomplete. This piece was once a part of the Cahrl Polowzky Collection formed in the early 1930's. The collection was split up during the final years of the 2nd. WW. and more than fifteen artworks from the Feline Era is believed to have been burned by the Nazis, determined to destroy what they called "entartet kunst", or degenerated art. Somehow this small, but beautiful portrait of the young general Gabriel Kleber managed to escape the destruction of the Germans, and ended up in Sweden as a part of a private collection. The coat of arms featured on this painting is a variety of the Oromys Order symbol. No record shows what significance this variety with the mice diagonally from top left to bottom right has. The Oromys brotherhood (Also know as The Oromys Order) started in the late 1500's as a hunting club, but evolved into a gentleman 's club through the 1600's. Sold.