JEAN-BAPTISTE-JACQUES AUGUSTIN (1759-1832)

A Fine Portrait Miniature of Ferdinand of Orléans, Duke of Chartres, facing left, three-quarter length, wearing the gold-braided green Hussar's uniform with red collar, cuffs and trousers, gold-figured mauve sash, his left hand resting on his sword, his right hand holding the white ostrich feather of his gold-trimmed red shako on a chair, his gold cross-belt decorated with a shield-shaped reserve containing the coat-of-arms of the House of Orléans, high open white collar, curly short fair hair; gold-fringed blue drapery in the background

细节

JEAN-BAPTISTE-JACQUES AUGUSTIN (1759-1832)
A Fine Portrait Miniature of Ferdinand of Orléans, Duke of Chartres, facing left, three-quarter length, wearing the gold-braided green Hussar's uniform with red collar, cuffs and trousers, gold-figured mauve sash, his left hand resting on his sword, his right hand holding the white ostrich feather of his gold-trimmed red shako on a chair, his gold cross-belt decorated with a shield-shaped reserve containing the coat-of-arms of the House of Orléans, high open white collar, curly short fair hair; gold-fringed blue drapery in the background
signed and dated 'Augustin. 1815.' (lower left)
oval, 3¾ in. (95 mm.) high, rectangular gilt-bronze frame with palmette and lotus border and four anthemion spandrels, the sliding gilt-bronze reverse incribed with initials 'MA' surmounted by the royal French crown, and with inventory nr. 633.

来源

Marie-Amélie of Bourbon-Naples (1782-1866), Queen of the French 1830-1848, mother of the sitter, inv. no. 633.
Acquired by a relative of the present owner from a direct descendant of the former.

拍品专文

Ferdinand-Philippe-Louis of Orléans, born in Palermo in 1810, the eldest son of the future King Louis-Philippe and his wife Marie-Amélie, née Princess of Naples and the Two Sicilies, married in 1837 Hélène, Princess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Exceptionally talented and promising, he died tragically in a carriage accident at Sablonville beween Paris and Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1842. His parents built a memorial chapel at the spot where he was thrown out of the coach which can still be seen today.