Lot 148
  • 148

JEAN BAPTISTE JOSEPH DUCHESNE | Portrait of Louise Marie Thérèse d'Artois, later Duchess of Parma and Piacenza (1819-1864), as a child, circa 1825

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Portrait of Louise Marie Thérèse d'Artois, later Duchess of Parma and Piacenza (1819-1864), as a child, circa 1825
  • Watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, gold mount with blue enamel border;signed centre right: Duchesne
  • 47 by 29 mm.

Provenance

David David-Weill (1871-1952), inv. no. 639, until 1936;
with Wildenstein, Paris;
Sir Charles Clore (1905-1979);
his executor's sale, London, Sotheby's, 17 March 1986, lot 15

Exhibited

London, 1961, no. 41

Literature

Gillet, et al., 1957, p. 86, no. 41;
Friesen (ed.), 2001, p. 406, no. 125;
Hofstetter, 2002, p. 152, fig. 54;
Lemoine-Bouchard, 2008, p. 208

Condition

In very good order.
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Catalogue Note

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