File:Marie Anne Victoire de Bavière, Dauphine of France by Jean Petitot today in the British Royal Collection.jpg

"Jean Petitot, the most successful enamellist of the seventeenth-century, is noted for capturing in unsurpassed fine detail the likenesses of Louis XIV and the key members of his circle at the French court. Marie Anne Christine Victoire, Princess of Bavaria, became part of this circle when she married, in 1680, Louis Le Grand Dauphin, son of Louis XIV (see 421377) and is likely to have been painted by Petitot soon after her arrival at court. Jean Petitot had, by then, been working for many years at the French court as Court Painter in Enamel to the King. Although the Genevan-born enamellist had spent several years in England from 1637 onwards working at the court of Charles I, he was forced to flee to France by the onset of the Civil War. He may have received an introduction at the court of Louis XIV from the king's aunt, Queen Henrietta Maria, who had also returned to exile in France after the execution of Charles I in 1649. Petitot's success in Paris was to continue until the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685) when, as a Protestant, he was forced to return to Geneva where he eventually died in 1691. Over fifty enamels by Jean Petitot were acquired by George IV between 1799 and 1827, most of them inset into snuff boxes. Many of these were separated from their original mounts, which were sold after George IV's death, leaving the unframed enamels in the Royal Collection."