FRENCH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1820
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FRENCH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1820

已結束2013年6月4日

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GBP 3,750

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FRENCH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1820
Marie-Caroline (1798-1870), Duchesse de Berry, née Princess Caroline of Naples and Sicily, in black velvet riding coat with brass buttons in the shape of flowers, black braiding across her front, into which a pocket watch suspended from a chain is tucked, pink roses pinned at waist, black lace-collared cloak over red Cashmere scarf, black bonnet decorated with black plumes over her fair hair dressed in ringlets; landscape background
on ivory
oval, 4½ in. (114 mm.) high, stamped gilt-metal mount within rectangular lemonwood-veneered wood panel

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This miniature is inspired by a print by Pierre Audouin (1768-1822) based on a monochrome ad vivum portrait signed by Henri-Joseph Hesse (1781-1849), exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1819 and illustrated in N. Garnier Pelle et al., Portraits des maisons royales et impériales de France et d'Europe. Les Miniatures du musée Condé à Chantilly, Paris, 2007, no. 49.