The Pohl-Ströher Collection of Portrait Miniatures, Part III

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JEAN BAPTISTE JOSEPH DUCHESNE | PORTRAIT OF PRINCESS LOUIS D'ORLÉANS, LATER QUEEN OF THE BELGIANS (1812-1850), CIRCA 1830

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JEAN BAPTISTE JOSEPH DUCHESNE

Gisors 1770 - 1856 Paris

PORTRAIT OF PRINCESS LOUIS D'ORLÉANS, LATER QUEEN OF THE BELGIANS (1812-1850), CIRCA 1830

Enamel, gilt-metal mount, inset into a gold bracelet, inscribed verso;

signed centre left: Duchesne Gisors, inscribed on the case verso: Aunt Louise, / left to me / by her mother, / Queen Marie Amelie. / 1866.

52 by 39 mm.

Marie-Amélie, Queen of the French, née Princess of Naples (d. 1866);

by whom bequeathed to Victoria, Queen of Great Britain (d. 1901);

sale, Geneva, Sotheby's, 16 November 1986, lot 38

Lemoine-Bouchard, 2008, p. 208;

Hofstetter, 2015, p. 384, illust.

Duchesne has based this enamel on a watercolour miniature that he painted of the sitter, formerly in the collection of the Royal House of Orleans, sold Sotheby's, Paris, 29 September 2015, lot 30.