Live Auction 5230Newnham Hall - House sale
Lot 278

French School, circa 1820 after Pierre Mignard

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GBP 862

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French School, circa 1820 after Pierre Mignard

A Lady of the Court of Louis XIV, three-quarter length in blue dress the bodice heavily worked in gold and pearls, holding jewels in her right hand, her fair hair dressed in ringlets, landscape background

enamel, unframed
oval, 2 7/8in. (73mm.) high

Specialist note

The sitter has variously been identified as Marie Angelique, Duchesse de Fontages (1661-1681), Anne Marie Loiuse d'Orleans, Duchesse de Montpensier (1605-1627) and Henrietta de Coligny, Comtesse de la Suze (1618-1673)