CONTINENTAL SCHOOL, 1817

Madame Elisabeth (1764-1794), facing right in grey dress with large wide white collar, sprigged fichu scarf tied at corsage with large posy of flowers, powdered curling upswept hair

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CONTINENTAL SCHOOL, 1817
Madame Elisabeth (1764-1794), facing right in grey dress with large wide white collar, sprigged fichu scarf tied at corsage with large posy of flowers, powdered curling upswept hair
signed with monogram and dated 'DL 1817' (lower right)
on paper
oval, 5 5/16 in. (135 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount

拍品专文

Elisabeth of Bourbon, Princess of France, called Madame Elisabeth, was the youngest sister of Kings Louis XVI, Louis XVIII and Charles X. It turned out impossible to find her a matching spouse of adequate rank. At the outbreak of the French Revolution, she refused to emigrate with her brothers the comte de Provence and the comte d'Artois and thus followed her brother Louis XVI and her sister-in-law Marie-Antoinette to the guillotine.