Henri Comte de Chambord (1820-1886), in black coat, maroon waistcoat and white shirt with turquoise dress studs linked with gold chain, knotted black cravat, wearing the pale blue moiré sash and breast star of the Royal French Order of the Holy Ghost

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JOSEPH HIPPOLYTE LEQUEUTRE (FRENCH, 1793-1877)
Henri Comte de Chambord (1820-1886), in black coat, maroon waistcoat and white shirt with turquoise dress studs linked with gold chain, knotted black cravat, wearing the pale blue moiré sash and breast star of the Royal French Order of the Holy Ghost
signed 'Lequeutre' (mid-left)
oval, 4 13/16 in. (123 mm.) high, elaborate ormolu easel frame by Alphonse Giroux, signed, the spandrels with the sitter's initial, surmounted by two putti holding the Royal crown above the French Royal coat-of-arms

來源

By descent.

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拍品專文

The hitherto unpublished present and following lots are part of a series of five large miniatures by Lequeutre in impressive ormolu frames by Alphonse Giroux depicting the French Royal family during their exile in Frohsdorf Castle, Austria. The miniature of Comte de Chambord's mother, the Duchesse de Berry, was in the Brewster collection, New York, sold Sotheby's, Geneva, 15 November 1995, lot 339. The miniatures depicting Comte de Chambord's uncle, the Duc d'Angoulême and his wife Madame Royale, are still kept in the family and were illustrated in G. Englebert, 'Frohsdorf ou les souvenirs du Comte de Chambord, L'Eventail, no. 18, December 1988, pp. 54-55. For further information, see B. Hofstetter, 'Les miniaturistes de la duchesse de Berry' in Marie Caroline de Berry, Paris, 2002, p. 154.