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Lot Essay
It is difficult to be certain who this bust depicts, although it does appear to bear a strong resemblance to the duchesse d'Angoulême. At this time the Bonaparte family would not have been depicted, and the only other Bourbon Royal candidate would have been Marie-Caroline, la duchesse de Berri, although it does not appear to be of her; see the flattering (she was divergently cross-eyed) Sèvres biscuit portrait bust of La duchesse de Berri sold in these Rooms on 17th April 2000, lot 98.
Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte (1778-1851), was the only child to survive Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. She was not quite 13 when she was imprisonned in La Prison du Temple. Marie-Thérèse, the Austrian Empress, negotiated her release in exchange for five Frenchmen. In 1799 she married her cousin, Louis-Antoine de Bourbon, duc d'Angoulême. Both she and her husband lived an unsettled life, their time spent in France thrice cut short by exile. They had no children.
Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte (1778-1851), was the only child to survive Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. She was not quite 13 when she was imprisonned in La Prison du Temple. Marie-Thérèse, the Austrian Empress, negotiated her release in exchange for five Frenchmen. In 1799 she married her cousin, Louis-Antoine de Bourbon, duc d'Angoulême. Both she and her husband lived an unsettled life, their time spent in France thrice cut short by exile. They had no children.