The Pohl-Ströher Collection of Portrait Miniatures, Part III
The Pohl-Ströher Collection of Portrait Miniatures, Part III
Auction Closed
December 5, 07:06 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
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.
