Live Auction 1546The Raglan Collection: Wellington, Waterloo and The Crimea And Works of Art from the Collection of the Marquesses of Londonderry
JEAN-BAPTISTE JACQUES AUGUSTIN (FRENCH, 1759-1832)
Lot 403

JEAN-BAPTISTE JACQUES AUGUSTIN (FRENCH, 1759-1832)

Closed23 May 2014

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GBP 1,187

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JEAN-BAPTISTE JACQUES AUGUSTIN (FRENCH, 1759-1832)
Louis XVIII (1755-1824), King of France 1814/15-1824, in blue uniform with gold epaulettes, wearing the breast Stars of the Royal French Order of the Holy Ghost and the Royal French Order of St Louis
signed 'Augustin' (mid-left)
on ivory
oval, 1½ in. (38 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame surmounted by a crown

Almost certainly given by Louis XVIII of France, King of France to Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh (1769 –1822), mounted to the cover of a gold snuff box, following the conclusion of the Congress of Vienna in 1815 and by descent.