Madame Royale, in profile to the left, en grisaille on a dark blue ground, with frill-bordered decollete and muslin fichu, her curly long hair adorned with a rope of pearls and a knotted ribbon

Princess Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte of France (1778-1851), first child of King Louis XVI (see lot 111) and his wife Marie-Antoinette (see lot 45), was called Madame Royale. Miraculously, she survived the Terror of the French Revolution and was married to her cousin, the Duke of Angoulême, in 1799.
Piat-Joseph Sauvage painted a series of similar profile miniatures of all the members of the Royal Family circa 1791. Seven portraits, from the Collection of the Marquis de Villefranche, are illustrated in F. Laurentie, Louis XVII, Paris, 1913, no. 72, and three others, from the collection of the Chevalier de Lamarck, were sold in these rooms on 17 October 1995, lots 27-29.