Live Auction 1187A Life's Devotion: The Collection of the Late Mrs T.S. Eliot
JEAN-PIERRE MENUISIER (FRENCH, B. 1783)
Lot 191

JEAN-PIERRE MENUISIER (FRENCH, B. 1783)

Closed20 November 2013

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GBP 7,500

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JEAN-PIERRE MENUISIER (FRENCH, B. 1783)
Empress Marie-Louise of France (1791-1847), in white Empire-line dress with white fur stole over her shoulders, brown hair upswept and dressed in ringlets
bearing signature 'Isabey' (lower left)
on ivory
oval, 2 in. (53 mm.) high, rectangular ormolu frame

The Property of an English Noblewoman: Christie's, London, 21 June 1999, lot 162.

Specialist note

Marie Louise (1791-1847), daughter of Emperor Francis I of Austria and his second wife Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily, married, in 1810, Emperor Napoleon I (1769-1821) as his second wife. After Napoleon's death, she married Count von Neipperg (1775-1829) morganatically and, after the Vienna Congress, became Duchess of Parma. She married once more morgantically in 1834, to Charles-René de Bombelles.
For a very similar miniature by Jean-Baptiste Isabey, signed, see Christie's, London, 27 November 2012, lot 327.