LUC SICARDI, signed and dated 1793

THE PROPERTY OF A NOBLEMAN

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LUC SICARDI, signed and dated 1793

An important historical miniature of Madame de Saint-Brice wearing a white silk dress with knotted white muslin fichu, an ochre sash tied at her waist, a matching bow entwined in her long curly dark-brown hair -- 75 mm diam., fine heavy gilt-bronze frame with beaded border.

出版

Magnus Olausson, Europeiskt Miniatyrmaleri, Stockholm, 1994, pp. 64, 76 note 30, illustr. colour pl. 10.

展覽

Modes et Révolutions 1780-1804, Paris, Musée de la Mode, Palais Galliéra, March-May 1789; Louis XVII, Versailles, Hôtel de Ville, May-July 1789, nr 85.

拍品專文

Marie-Françoise-Victoire Dousset de Saint-Brice was the last femme de chambre of the ill-fated Dauphin, later King Louis XVII of France. When the Royal Family of France was imprisoned in the Temple on 13 August 1792, only very few people from the Royal Household were authorized to serve the Bourbons in the new abode. In addition to the Princesse de Lamballe, the Duchesse de Tourzel and her daughter Pauline, only four other women including Madame de Saint-Brice could follow the Royal Family. Madame de Saint-Brice was in charge of the Dauphin and had to share his bedroom on the first floor in the Temple, the billard, together with his governess the Duchesse de Tourzel. On 19 August 1792, Madame de Saint-Brice was arrested by the Revolutionaries, thrown into the prison of La Force and tried the same day.