PROBABLY DIEPPE, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A French carved and painted ivory portrait of Louis XVI**
Probably Dieppe, Last quarter 19th Century
Of architectural form, surmounted by a balustrade centred by a scalloped niche enclosing a shield-bearing maiden, above an arched pediment carved with trumpeting putti and a coat-of-arms, above an inset painted panel depicting Louis XVI, signed Callet, flanked on either side by a classically draped maiden, one bearing a wreath, the other supporting a cornucopia, on a breakfront plinth base carved in relief with clamouring putti, garlands and trophies
42¼ in. x 34 5/8 in. (109 cm. x 107 cm.)

Special notice

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Lot Essay

This painted panel, like many 19th century reproductions of the same portrait, was inpired by Antoine-François Callet's original painting executed in 1786. His masterpiece now hangs in the Salon d'Apollon (or the Salon de Trône) at Versailles.

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