LOT DETAILS

Materials:

on ivory

Size Notes:

oval

Description:

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Markings:

signed 'Lequeutre' (upper left and lower-right)

Condition:

heavy rectangular ormolu easel-stand frame, the spandrels decorated with crowned initals MC flanked by lilies, the strapwork border hung with garlands, the base with an angel at devotions, surmounted with the coat-of-arms of the Duke of Berry and the Royal Arms of the Two Sicilies, the strut engraved 'Alph. Giroux à Paris'

Literature:

B. Hofstetter, 'Les miniaturistes de la duchesse de Berry' in Marie Caroline de Berry, Paris, 2002, p. 154 (as 'certainly the most beautiful 'late' portrait miniature' [of her]).

Provenance:

Caroline of Naples of Sicily (1798-1870), Duchesse de Berry. Christie's, Geneva, 14 November 1978, lot 174. Robert D. Brewster (1916-1995) Collection, New York; Sotheby's, Geneva, 15 November 1995, lot 339.