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Artist
Joseph-Hippolyte Lequeutre (1793-1877)
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
English: Marie-Caroline (1798-1870) Duchesse de Berry, née Princess Caroline of Naples and Sicily, seated on fur-bordered green drape, in royal blue velvet dress with ermine-trimmed sleeves, gem-set brooch at corsage, wearing pearl necklace and bracelet, her upswept hair partly covered by gold-bordered white headscarf, gem-set tiara, holding a fan in her right hand; green curtain and landscape background with swans on a lake signed 'Lequeutre' (upper left and lower-right)
Date 18th century
date QS:P571,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
Medium miniature on ivory
Object history

Provenance:

  • Caroline of Naples of Sicily (1798-1870), Duchesse de Berry.
  • Christie's, Geneva, 14 November 1978, lot 174.
  • Sotheby's, Geneva, 15 November 1995, Robert D. Brewster (1916-1995) Collection, New York, lot 339.
Source/Photographer Christie's, LotFinder: entry 5628450

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