FRANÇOIS-JOSEPH-JUSTE SIEURAC, signed, circa 1815/1820

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FRANÇOIS-JOSEPH-JUSTE SIEURAC, signed, circa 1815/1820

The Duchess of Angoulême wearing a magnificent pearl tiara with white ostrich feathers and a white lace veil, and a splendid matching pearl necklace with ear-pendants, the décolleté of her dress bordered with frilled lace; green drapery in the background; rectangular with canted corners -- 25 x 19 mm, gold-mounted on the hinged lid of a rectangular white patch-box, the interior lined with red velvet and set with a mirror (78 x 27 mm).

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Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte of France (1778-1851), first child of King Louis XVI of France (see lots 252 and 255) and his wife Marie-Antoinette, was first called Madame Royale. She survived the Terror and married her cousin, the Duke of Angoulême - the elder brother of the Duke of Berry - in 1799. She returned to France with her uncle Louis XVIII after Napoleon's fall and had an important impact at the court of both Louis XVIII and Charles X. She emigrated definitively in 1830 and left her fortune to her cousin, the comte de Chambord (see lot 256).

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