Princess Marianne of the Netherlands (1810-1883), in lace-bordered white dress with drop pearl brooch at corsage, pearl necklace and drop- pearl earrings, a strand of pearls in her upswept and plaited hair

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GERMAN SCHOOL, CIRCA 1840
Princess Marianne of the Netherlands (1810-1883), in lace-bordered white dress with drop pearl brooch at corsage, pearl necklace and drop- pearl earrings, a strand of pearls in her upswept and plaited hair
oval, 1 15/16 in. (49 mm.) high, gilt-metal brooch frame with chased and engraved reverse

Provenance

Collection of Architect Kurt Jahn (1903-1978), Darmstadt, inv. J.94.

Exhibited

Darmstadt, Residenzschloss, Schlossmuseum, 1974-2007, inv. no. 21044.

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Lot Essay

Wilhelmina Frederica Louise Charlotte Marianne was a daughter of King William I of the Netherlands and his first cousin, Wilhelmina of Prussia. Marianne married Albert, Prince of Prussia, in 1830. Despite Albert's infidelities, she was not allowed to divorce him until she fell pregnant from her driver and private secretary, Johannes van Rossum, in 1849. Due to this faux-pas, she was ostracised by the courts of both Berlin and The Hague.
Two earlier miniatures of her are illustrated in K. E. Schaffers-Bodenhausen/M. E. Tiethoff-Spliethoff, The Portrait Miniatures in the Collections of the House of Orange-Nassau, Zwolle, 1993, p. 129.

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