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ATTRIBUTED TO MORITZ MICHAEL DAFFINGER (AUSTRIAN, 1790-1849)
Marie-Caroline (1798-1870), Duchesse de Berry, née Princess Caroline of Naples and Sicily, in brown silk dress bordered with white gauze, lavender-blue white embroidered muslin turban, her centre-parted fair hair dressed in ringlets; claret red curtain background
on ivory
oval, 2 11/16 in. (68 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame
Marie-Caroline (1798-1870), Duchesse de Berry, née Princess Caroline of Naples and Sicily, in brown silk dress bordered with white gauze, lavender-blue white embroidered muslin turban, her centre-parted fair hair dressed in ringlets; claret red curtain background
on ivory
oval, 2 11/16 in. (68 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame
Provenance
By direct family descent of the sitter;
A Nobleman; Christie's, Geneva, 15 November 1994, lot 257.
A Nobleman; Christie's, Geneva, 15 November 1994, lot 257.
Literature
B. Hofstetter, 'Les miniaturistes de la duchesse de Berry' in Marie Caroline de Berry, Paris, 2002, pp. 156-157, illustrated in colour p. 155, fig. 61.
Special notice
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