Iolanda Margherita di Savoia, later Countess of Bergolo (1909-1986) as a child, in white dress, red ribbon in her dark hair

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L. GOCASTELLI, CIRCA 1910
Iolanda Margherita di Savoia, later Countess of Bergolo (1909-1986) as a child, in white dress, red ribbon in her dark hair
signed 'L. Gocastelli' (lower right)
square, 2 x 2 in. (5 x 5 cm.)
with Racconigi paper label to reverse and a label inscribed 'Appartient á la Reine Elisabeth'

Provenance

Castello di Racconigi, Turin
Elisabeth, Queen of the Belgians (1876-1965)

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Lot Essay

Iolanda Margherita (1901-1986), eldest daughter of Vittorio Emanuele III, King of Italy (1869-1947) and his wife, Elena (1873-1952), daughter of Nicholas I, King of Montenegro, married Giorgio Carli, Count of Bergolo (b. 1887) on 9 April 1923 and had issue.
For another miniature of the sitter as a child, see the exhibition catalogue Miniature Sabaude, Turin, Unione Industriale Torino, 1996, p. 44, illustrated no. 1.

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