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SOPHIE LIÉNARD (FRENCH, FL. C. 1842 - AFTER 1860)
Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1814-1858), Duchess of Orléans, in white off-the-shoulders dress with lace collar and silk bow at corsage, her dark upswept hair cover with lace veil tied with two lilac ribbons
Signed 'Sophie Liénard' (lower right)
Porcelain
Oval, 137 mm. high, gilt-metal mount within rectangular wood frame with brown velvet covering
Inscribed on the reverse with the name of the porcelain factory: 'Rihouet / m de porcelaines / 7 rue de la Paix'

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The sitter was the daughter of Frederick Louis, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Karoline Luise of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. She married, in 1837, the eldest son of Louis Philippe I, Ferdinand Philippe of Orléans (see previous lot). She was the mother of the future Count of Paris and Duke of Chartres and her descendants include the present Count of Paris and present-day pretenders to the throne of France and Italy and the kings of Spain and Belgium.
The present miniature derives from Franz Xaver Winterhalter's full-length portrait of c.1839, now in the Museum of Versailles (inv. no. MV5201).

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