Lot 40
40
Continental School, late 19th/early 20th Century
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Continental School, late 19th/early 20th Century

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Continental School, late 19th/early 20th Century
The King of Rome, seated on a green cushion holding a sceptre and orb, in loose white dress and wearing the red sash and star of the Grand Eagle of the Legion of Honour
on ivorine, rectangular wood frame with gilt-metal mount
oval, 5 7/8 in. (149 mm.) high
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Provenance
With Dr. Robert Keil, Vienna (in 1994).
Special notice
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Lot Essay

Napoleon I and Josephine could not have children. When Napoleon's mistress Maria Louisa became pregnant he divorced Josephine and married Maria Louisa. She gave birth to a baby boy who was christened: Napoleon Francois-Joseph Charles, and as heir to the French Empire, Napoleon's son was named the Duke of Reichstadt. He died in 1832, age 21.

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