Live Auction 5962Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
P. DE GIUSTI (ITALIAN, FL. C. 1810)
Lot 334

P. DE GIUSTI (ITALIAN, FL. C. 1810)

Closed28 November 2012

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GBP 4,000

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P. DE GIUSTI (ITALIAN, FL. C. 1810)
Caroline Murat, née Bonaparte (1782-1839), Queen of Naples and Sicily, in gold-bordered white dress, gem-set brooch and drop-pearl at corsage, gem-set necklace, earrings and tiara
signed 'P. de Giusti p.' (mid-right)
on ivory
2 3/8 in. (60 mm.) diam., gilt-metal mount with stamped surround

A Swiss Collector; Christie's, Geneva, 21 November 1979, lot 343.

Specialist note

Caroline Murat was a daughter of Carlo Bonaparte and Letizia Ramolino, Madame Mère (see lot 332). She was therefore a younger sister of Napoleon I. She married, in 1800, one of the generals in Napoleon's army, Joachim Murat.
The present miniature derives from a large-scale portrait by François Pascal Simon, Baron Gérard.