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AFTER MARTIN VAN MEYTENS THE YOUNGER (SWEDISH-AUSTRIAN, 1695-1770)
Lot 403

AFTER MARTIN VAN MEYTENS THE YOUNGER (SWEDISH-AUSTRIAN, 1695-1770)

Fermé2 December 2015

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AFTER MARTIN VAN MEYTENS THE YOUNGER (SWEDISH-AUSTRIAN, 1695-1770)

Princess Maria Clementina Sobieska (1702-1735), in pink damask dress, ermine-lined red cloak, wearing the blue sash of the Order of the Garter
On ivory
Oval, 70 mm. high, gilt-metal mount, inscribed 'Chatillon' on the backing card

Sotheby's, London, 4 July 1983, lot 32 (as A Noblewoman, attributed to Louis de Chatillon).

Note du spécialiste

The present miniature derives from a large-scale painting by Martin van Meytens the Younger circa 1725, commemorating the birth of the sitter's second child, Henry Benedict Stuart. It was a pair to one of her husband, James Francis Edward Stuart, The Old Pretender, and the portraits were given as mutual presents, each to be hung in the other's apartment in the Palazzo Muti. The Meytens painting became her official portrait and was copied both on a large and small scale (see exhibition catalogue by E. Corp, The King over the Water. Portraits of the Stuarts in Exile after 1689, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, 2001, pp. 63-64).