Princess Carolina Amalia of Saxony (1770-1804), facing left in white dress with black lace stole, triple pearl necklace and drop pearl earrings, white ribboned cap in her long powdered curling hair

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GERMAN SCHOOL, CIRCA 1795
Princess Carolina Amalia of Saxony (1770-1804), facing left in white dress with black lace stole, triple pearl necklace and drop pearl earrings, white ribboned cap in her long powdered curling hair
oval, 1 7/8 in. (47 mm.) high, silver-gilt frame

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The sitter is not the Duchess of Saxe-Teschen but her niece, Carolina Amalia of Parma, Princess of Saxony (1770-1804), the wife of Prince Maximilian of Saxony.

Lot Essay

Caroline Amalia, eldest daughter of Duke Ferdinand I of Parma and his wife Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria, was married in 1792 to Maximilian Prince of Saxony (see R. Keil, Die Porträtminiaturen des Hauses Habsburg, Vienna, 1999, p. 194, no. 424).

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