Lot Essay
For a miniature of the sitter's husband, Louis Napoleon, King of Holland, see lot 303.
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Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen of Holland (1783-1837), full face in pale blue dress with high standing double ruff collar and high standing frilled white collar, diaphanous scarf draped from a jewelled coronet around her neck and corsage, lilac in her fair curling hair
Details
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Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen of Holland (1783-1837), full face in pale blue dress with high standing double ruff collar and high standing frilled white collar, diaphanous scarf draped from a jewelled coronet around her neck and corsage, lilac in her fair curling hair
with signature 'J. Isabey' (mid-right)
on card
oval, 4¾ in. (120 mm.) high, rectangular ormolu frame surmounted by a crown
Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen of Holland (1783-1837), full face in pale blue dress with high standing double ruff collar and high standing frilled white collar, diaphanous scarf draped from a jewelled coronet around her neck and corsage, lilac in her fair curling hair
with signature 'J. Isabey' (mid-right)
on card
oval, 4¾ in. (120 mm.) high, rectangular ormolu frame surmounted by a crown
Provenance
Presented to Samuel Cartwright by Louis Napoleon in 1848.
E. L. Dider; Christie's, London, 1920.
E. L. Dider; Christie's, London, 1920.