LOUIS-MARIE AUTISSIER, signed, circa 1816

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LOUIS-MARIE AUTISSIER, signed, circa 1816

Anna Paulovna, Queen of the Netherlands, her centre-parted brown hair tied in ringlets and adorned with a pearl-set gold tiara, wearing a lace-bordered white dress with high muslin ruff, a multi-colour embroidered pink cashmere shawl falling over her right shoulder, a pearl-set pendant and a long gold chain around her neck; oval -- 6.5 cm high, gilt-metal mount on a rectangular blue velvet panel

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Anna Paulovna (1795-1865), daughter of Tsar Paul I of Russia and his wife Maria Feodorovna, was married to the future King William II of the Netherlands in 1816. Autissier is known to have worked for King William I of the Netherlands on several occasions (see Lucien Lemaire, Autissier, Lille 1912, pp. 67, 70, 141, 142, 144), and the present miniature was probably painted in 1816, the year Autissier exhibited in the Amsterdam Salon.

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