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Louis XV (1710-1774), King of France 1715-1774, in gold breast plate with gold-bordered purple lining and gold straps, purple cloak embroidered with the gold fleur-de-lys over his right shoulder, powdered wig en queue, wearing the blue moiré sash of the Royal French Order of the Holy Ghost and the red moiré sash of the Order of the Golden Fleece
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FRENCH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1770
Louis XV (1710-1774), King of France 1715-1774, in gold breast plate with gold-bordered purple lining and gold straps, purple cloak embroidered with the gold fleur-de-lys over his right shoulder, powdered wig en queue, wearing the blue moiré sash of the Royal French Order of the Holy Ghost and the red moiré sash of the Order of the Golden Fleece
enamel on gold
1¼ in. (32 mm.) diam., bright-cut silver-gilt frame
Louis XV (1710-1774), King of France 1715-1774, in gold breast plate with gold-bordered purple lining and gold straps, purple cloak embroidered with the gold fleur-de-lys over his right shoulder, powdered wig en queue, wearing the blue moiré sash of the Royal French Order of the Holy Ghost and the red moiré sash of the Order of the Golden Fleece
enamel on gold
1¼ in. (32 mm.) diam., bright-cut silver-gilt frame
Provenance
Baron Jean de Bourgoing, Vienna, in 1925.
Zeller, Lindau, 14 May 1984, lot 917.
Zeller, Lindau, 14 May 1984, lot 917.
Literature
J. de Bourgoing, Miniaturen von Heinrich Friedrich Füger und anderen Meistern, Vienna, 1925, p. 82, no. 50, illustrated pl. 14.
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