Live Auction 5962Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
JOHAN-WILHELM-CARL WAY (SWEDISH, 1792-1873)
Lot 279

JOHAN-WILHELM-CARL WAY (SWEDISH, 1792-1873)

Closed28 November 2012

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GBP 8,125

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JOHAN-WILHELM-CARL WAY (SWEDISH, 1792-1873)
Désirée Clary (1777-1860), Queen of Sweden, in Swedish Court dress and gold-bordered red stole embroidered with royal crowns surrounded by laurel wreaths, her brown hair dressed in ringlets and entwined with string of pearls
signed with initials and dated 'JW 1820' (lower right)
on ivory
oval, 3 in. (77 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount

Christie's, Geneva, 15 November 1994, lot 277.

Specialist note

Désirée Clary, one-time fiancée of Napoleon Bonaparte, was Queen of Sweden as consort of King Charles XIV John (see lot 278).
The present miniature is inspired by Robert Lefèvre's full-length oil painting in the Royal Palace, Stockholm.