Lot 139
139
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SOPHIE LIÉNARD (fl. c. 1842-1860)

Four porcelain miniatures of Emperor Napoleon III, his wife Empress Eugenie, their son the Prince Impérial, and Emperor Napoleon I; the latter in blue uniform with white facings, decorated with the breast-star, red sash and badge of the Imperial French Order of the Legion of Honour and the badge of the Imperial French Order of the Iron Crown of Lombardy; Napoleon III in blue General's uniform with gold epaulettes, gold-embroidered collar, red sash, breast-star and badge of the Imperial French Order of the Legion of Honour and the badge of the Imperial French Military Medal, parted brown hair, moustache and goatie beard; his wife in off-the-shoulder embroidered black dress with ermine cloak, jewelled pearl brooch at corsage, pearl necklace, centre-parted fair hair; their son in tricolore uniform, his left hand holding his cross-belt, parted curly brown hair

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SOPHIE LIÉNARD (fl. c. 1842-1860)
Four porcelain miniatures of Emperor Napoleon III, his wife Empress Eugenie, their son the Prince Impérial, and Emperor Napoleon I; the latter in blue uniform with white facings, decorated with the breast-star, red sash and badge of the Imperial French Order of the Legion of Honour and the badge of the Imperial French Order of the Iron Crown of Lombardy; Napoleon III in blue General's uniform with gold epaulettes, gold-embroidered collar, red sash, breast-star and badge of the Imperial French Order of the Legion of Honour and the badge of the Imperial French Military Medal, parted brown hair, moustache and goatie beard; his wife in off-the-shoulder embroidered black dress with ermine cloak, jewelled pearl brooch at corsage, pearl necklace, centre-parted fair hair; their son in tricolore uniform, his left hand holding his cross-belt, parted curly brown hair
signed 'S=ie Liénard.' (mid-left), 'Sophie Liénard.' (mid-left), 'S=ie Liénard' (mid-right), 'S= Liénard.' (lower left)
on Paris porcelain from the Rihouët & Lerosey factory (three with trade label on reverse)
each oval, 5¼ in. (133 mm.) high, gilt-metal easel frames with beaded borders, the young boy with foliate bow cresting (4)

Lot Essay

Charles-Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte (1808-1873), third son of Louis, King of Holland and his wife Hortense de Beauharnais (see lot 60), was a nephew of Emperor Napoleon I. After the death of the latter's son, Napoleon II (the Duke of Reichstadt, see lots 105, 113), he became the head of the Napoleonic dynasty. He was President of the French Republic 1848-1852 when he was proclaimed Emperor of the French. Napoleon III was deposed after his defeat by the Prussian forces at Sedan in 1870. He married Eugenie de Montijo (1826-1920) in 1853 and they had one son, the ill-fated Eugene-Louis-John-Joseph, Prince Impérial, born 1856, who perished in the Zulu campaign in 1879.

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