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Lot Essay
Another portrait of the Princesse de Lamballe by Vestier was exhibited at Versailles, Muse Nationale du Chateau, Marie-Antoinette archiduchesse, dauphine et Reine, 1955, no. 263, lent by Sir Alfred Beit (cf. J.-C. Sueur, Le Portraitiste Antoine Vestier (1740-1874), 1974, p. 118, no. 22.
Marie-Thrse Louise of Savoy-Carignano, Princesse de Lamballe (1749-1792) was born in Turin. In 1767 she married Louis Alexandre Stanislaus de Bourbon, Prince de Lamballe, son of the duc de Penthivre and great-grandson of Louis XIV. She was companion and confidante to Marie-Antoinette who appointed her surintendent of the royal household. In 1791 she travelled to England to appeal for help for the royal family but returned, unsuccessful, to the Tuileries Palace where she remained until August 10, 1792 when she was arrested along with Marie-Antoinette and imprisoned in the Temple. Upon refusal to take an oath against the monarchy, she was delivered to the populace on September 3rd and killed, after which her head was placed on a pike and paraded before the Queen's prison window.
In a French 18th Century transitional carved giltwood frame with stiff leaf outer edge, surmounted with scallop shell cresting flagged by pierced swags of acorn leaves.
Marie-Thrse Louise of Savoy-Carignano, Princesse de Lamballe (1749-1792) was born in Turin. In 1767 she married Louis Alexandre Stanislaus de Bourbon, Prince de Lamballe, son of the duc de Penthivre and great-grandson of Louis XIV. She was companion and confidante to Marie-Antoinette who appointed her surintendent of the royal household. In 1791 she travelled to England to appeal for help for the royal family but returned, unsuccessful, to the Tuileries Palace where she remained until August 10, 1792 when she was arrested along with Marie-Antoinette and imprisoned in the Temple. Upon refusal to take an oath against the monarchy, she was delivered to the populace on September 3rd and killed, after which her head was placed on a pike and paraded before the Queen's prison window.
In a French 18th Century transitional carved giltwood frame with stiff leaf outer edge, surmounted with scallop shell cresting flagged by pierced swags of acorn leaves.