A very fine miniature of a young lady called marquise de Thianges, facing left in low-cut pale yellow silk dress, pearl set jewelled clasp at corsage, pearl necklace and drop-pearl earrings, pearls entwined in her fair hair dressed in ringlets

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JEAN PETITOT (1607-1691)
A very fine miniature of a young lady called marquise de Thianges, facing left in low-cut pale yellow silk dress, pearl set jewelled clasp at corsage, pearl necklace and drop-pearl earrings, pearls entwined in her fair hair dressed in ringlets
enamel on gold
oval, 1 5/8 in. (41 mm.) high, gold frame with green and white enamel ribbon twist border, the plain reverse engraved with the names of the artist and the sitter

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(SEE ALSO CATALOGUE FRONT COVER ILLUSTRATION)

Lot Essay

Another enamel by Petitot of the same sitter in blue dress was sold Christie's, Geneva, 28 April 1976, lot 211.
Gabrielle marquise de Thianges (1633-1693) was the eldest of the five children of Gabriel de Rochechouart, duc de Mortemart and his wife Diane de Grandseigne. Gabrielle's youngest sister was Françoise de Rochechouart de Mortemart, marquise de Montespan, King Louis XIV's notorious mistress.

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