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SOPHIE LIÉNARD (FRENCH, FL. C. 1842 - AFTER 1860)
Lot 428

SOPHIE LIÉNARD (FRENCH, FL. C. 1842 - AFTER 1860)

Closed3 June 2015

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SOPHIE LIÉNARD (FRENCH, FL. C. 1842 - AFTER 1860)
Prince Ferdinand Philippe of Orléans (1810–1842), in dark blue coat with silver epaulettes, wearing the badge and breast-star of the Royal French Order of the Legion of Honour and the Royal Belgian Order of Leopold
Signed 'Sophie Liénard' (lower left)
Porcelain
Oval, 140 mm. high, gilt-metal mount within rectangular wood frame with velvet covering
Inscribed on the reverse with the name of the porcelain factory: 'Rihouet / Mt de porcelaine / 7 rue de la Paix'

Specialist note

The sitter was the eldest son of King Louis Philippe I (see lots 424 and 425) and Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily (see previous lot). He was born in Palermo during his parents' exile. He married, in 1837, Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (see next lot) and they had two boys: Prince Philippe, Count of Paris and Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres The sitter was a distinguished patron of the arts and filled his vast apartments in the Tuileries Palace with medieval and Renaissance objects, majolica, Chinese and Japanese porcelain and French furniture by craftsmen such as Oeben, Riesener, and Jacob. He died tragically in a carriage accident in which he was thrown from the vehicle at Sablonville between Paris and Neuilly-sur-Seine.
Another version of the present miniature is in the collections of the House of Orange-Nassau, see K. Schaffers-Bodenhausen and M. Tiethoff-Spliethoff, The Portrait Miniatures in the Collections of the House of Orange-Nassau, Zwolle, 1993, p. 235, no. 243, illustrated in colour.