Live Auction 1162Centuries of Style, Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
LOUIS-FRANÇOIS AUBRY (FRENCH, 1767-1851)
Lot 141 THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR

LOUIS-FRANÇOIS AUBRY (FRENCH, 1767-1851)

Closed27 November 2013

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GBP 6,875

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LOUIS-FRANÇOIS AUBRY (FRENCH, 1767-1851)
Jérôme Bonaparte (1784-1860), King of Westphalia 1807-1813, in blue-piped white uniform of the Westphalian Infantry, with gold-embroidered facings, black collar embroidered in gold oak leaves, wearing the red sash and the badge of the Imperial French Order of the Legion of Honour
signed 'Aubry' (mid-right)
on ivory
oval, 2.3/16 in. (56 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount, the burgundy moiré silk reverse applied with rectangular gilt-metal plaque engraved 'Jérôme Bonaparte / Roi de Westphalie'

A Private Collector; Christie's, Geneva, 16 May 1995, lot 230.

Specialist note

The sitter was a younger brother of Napoleon Bonaparte and was King of the briefly existing state of Westphalia. He married firstly Elizabeth ('Betsy') Patterson, with whom he had one son, but his brother annulled this marriage in order for him to marry the German princess Catharina of Württemberg, by whom he had three children. Later, living in exile in Italy, he married Giustina Pecori-Surez. After the creation of the second French Republic, Jérôme was named heir to his nephew Napoleon III and served as Marshal of France and President of the Senate.