Lot Essay
Enclosed documents indicate that this box was lent by the Marquise de Raigecourt to Madame Royale who wanted to have a ressembling portrait of her guillotined aunt.
For biographical informations on the sitter, see lot 101.
A replica of this miniature is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (illustrated in: Clare Le Corbeiller, European and American Snuff Boxes, London 1983, nr 174) and a reduced variant, signed and dated 1783, on the carnet de bal given by Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette to Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Inv. nr 8269 (illustrated, with erroneous identification, in the exhibition catalogue Cadeaux à la Cour impériale d'Autriche, Brussels 1987, nr 15).
For biographical informations on the sitter, see lot 101.
A replica of this miniature is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (illustrated in: Clare Le Corbeiller, European and American Snuff Boxes, London 1983, nr 174) and a reduced variant, signed and dated 1783, on the carnet de bal given by Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette to Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Inv. nr 8269 (illustrated, with erroneous identification, in the exhibition catalogue Cadeaux à la Cour impériale d'Autriche, Brussels 1987, nr 15).