Lot 119
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F. NOËL (FRENCH, FL. C. 1790-1830)
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F. NOËL (FRENCH, FL. C. 1790-1830)

Queen Marie-Antoinette (1755-1793), in lace-bordered Empire-lined white dress, ermine-bordered and gold-bordered purple cloak embroidered with gold fleurs-de-lys, draped over her left shoulder and tied with a tassel hanging from her right shoulder, gold tiara with blue medallion set with three fleurs-de-lys and gold-bordered gauze scarf embroidered with gold stars in her long powdered curling hair; cloudy sky background

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F. NOËL (FRENCH, FL. C. 1790-1830)
Queen Marie-Antoinette (1755-1793), in lace-bordered Empire-lined white dress, ermine-bordered and gold-bordered purple cloak embroidered with gold fleurs-de-lys, draped over her left shoulder and tied with a tassel hanging from her right shoulder, gold tiara with blue medallion set with three fleurs-de-lys and gold-bordered gauze scarf embroidered with gold stars in her long powdered curling hair; cloudy sky background
signed and dated 'Noël. f. .1819. (lower left)
3 1/16 in. (78 mm.) diam., reeded gilt-metal mount
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Lot Essay

This is after François Dumont's posthumous miniature painted in 1814 (see P. Jean-Richard, Miniatures sur ivoire. Musée du Louvre. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 1994, no. 213, and B. Hofstetter, 'François Dumont, peinte de la Cour', Le Pays Lorrain, vol. 76, no. 3, July-September 1995, p. 194, fig. 9). Another miniature after Dumont was sold Christie's, London, 7 December 2004, lot 258.

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