Style Paris: Ceramics and Furniture
Style Paris: Ceramics and Furniture
France, 19th century, after Félix Lecomte (1737-1817)
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May 31, 03:20 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
France, 19th century, after Félix Lecomte (1737-1817)
Marie-Antoinette of Lorraine-Habsbourg, Queen of France
marble bust, on a marble pedestal
1785 inscribed on the back
H. (overall) 90 cm ; 35 1/2 in.
Related literature
S. Lami, Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l'Ecole française au Dix-huitième siècle, t. II, Paris, 1911 (rééd. 1970), pp. 45.
S. Hoog, Musée national du château de Versailles : les sculptures : 1- le musée, Paris, 1993, pp. 262.
Louis-Simon Boizot (1743-1809), sculpteur du roi et directeur de l'atelier de sculpture à la Manufacture de Sèvres, exh. cat. musée Lambinet, Versailles, 2001.
S. Lami, Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l'Ecole française au Dix-huitième siècle, t. II, Paris, 1911 (rééd. 1970), pp. 45.
S. Hoog, Musée national du château de Versailles : les sculptures : 1- le musée, Paris, 1993, pp. 262.
Louis-Simon Boizot (1743-1809), sculpteur du roi et directeur de l'atelier de sculpture à la Manufacture de Sèvres, exh. cat. musée Lambinet, Versailles, 2001.
Félix Lecomte presents his bust of Marie-Antoinette at the Salon of 1783 (no. 238), today in the Château of Versailles (inv MV 2123). The Sovereign was then 28 years old, already queen of France for 9 years, and mother of two children. She is dressed in a large hermeline coat decorated with fleurs-de-lis, illustrating her Royalty, and wearing a fine necklace around her neck showing in a pendant the portrait of Louis XVI. Very concerned to obtain a resembling effigy of herself, the Queen commissioned her portrait from several artists, painters and sculptors, including Louis-Simon Boizot (1743–1809) in 1781. Félix Lecomte's marble filled the sovereign with satisfaction and was highly praised in the Livret de Salon.