FRANÇOIS DUMONT (1751-1831)

Queen Marie-Antoinette of France, facing right, nearly full-face, her high-piled hair falling onto her shoulders and adorned with two strings of pearls and turquoise-blue silk ribbons, wearing a pearl necklace

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FRANÇOIS DUMONT (1751-1831)
Queen Marie-Antoinette of France, facing right, nearly full-face, her high-piled hair falling onto her shoulders and adorned with two strings of pearls and turquoise-blue silk ribbons, wearing a pearl necklace
oval, 1¼in. (33mm.) high, silver-gilt frame set with pearls, the reverse with a strand of the Queen's natural hair under glass, detachable brooch mount with ribbon-tie surmount

Exhibited

Versailles, Town Hall, Louis XVII, 1989, no. 22.

Lot Essay

Queen Marie-Antoinette was born in 1755, one of Empress Maria Theresia's children, and married to the future King Louis XVI of France (see lot 111) in 1770. Her eldest child was Princess Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte (see lot 64). Marie-Antoinette, beheaded in 1793, was doubtlessly the most prominent victim of the Revolutionary Terror.

The present miniature will be included in Bodo Hofstetter's forthcoming catalogue raisonné on François Dumont's works.

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