Live Auction 10669The Collection of Ana Maria Espirito Santo Bustorff Silva
A PAIR OF BRASS-INLAID MAHOGANY OBELISKS SET WITH EIGHT PORTRAIT MINIATURES ON IVORY
Lot 110

A PAIR OF BRASS-INLAID MAHOGANY OBELISKS SET WITH EIGHT PORTRAIT MINIATURES ON IVORY

THE MINIATURES 18TH/19TH CENTURY, THE OBELISKS EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Closed29 April 2015

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A PAIR OF BRASS-INLAID MAHOGANY OBELISKS SET WITH EIGHT PORTRAIT MINIATURES ON IVORY
THE MINIATURES 18TH/19TH CENTURY, THE OBELISKS EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Each obelisk set with four miniatures, including a portrait miniature of Marie Leszczynska (1703–1768), Queen Consort of France 1725-1768 seated in day dress, the portrait of Marie Leszczynska surrounded by 46 paste stones; together with a portrait miniature of a pensive young lady in white, resting her head in her hand and tending to the fire of love, inscribed ‘DOUX SOUVENIR / TIENS MOI LIEU D’ESPÉR […]’ and bearing signature ‘Sené', after Louis Sené (Swiss, 1747-1804); two further portrait miniatures of gentlemen with white neck cravats one by N. Freund (French, fl. c. 1815-1818), signed and dated ‘Freund / pinxit / 1809,’ the other ‘Dujou f 1793’
Each: 17 in. (43 cm.) high

Specialist note

Marie Leszczynska married Louis XV (1710-1774) in 1725. This portrait miniature is after a full scale work by Jean-Marc Nattier (1685-1766) now at the Château de Versailles, which became the most famous image of the Queen and was copied many times.

A work by Sené in a private collection, from which the current example derives was exhibited Geneva, Musée Historique de Lousanne, 100 Ans de Miniatures Suisses, 1780-1880, 1999, no. 39. Another was sold Sotheby's, London, 11 February 1999, lot 160.