LOUIS-MARIE AUTISSIER (FRANCO-BELGIAN, 1772-1830)

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LOUIS-MARIE AUTISSIER (FRANCO-BELGIAN, 1772-1830)
Princess Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans (1777-1847), seated on a wooden chair, in white silk dress with lace sleeves and frilled cuffs, yellow sash around waist and tied in bows at cuffs, embroidered Cashmere shawl draped over her right shoulder and across her left arm, wearing an elaborate green cord necklace set with pearls and with pearl-set tasseled ends, white lace cap over her dark hair dressed in ringlets, her right arm resting on the back of the chair
signed and dated 'Autissier p^t à Paris. 1818.' (lower right)
on ivory
oval, 6 11/16 in. (170 mm.) high, within rectangular green plush-lined red leather case, the cover stamped with gilt Gothic intials GLK and gilt border

Provenance

Maxime Hébert (1853-1945) Collection, Paris.

Literature

L. R. Schidlof, Die Bildnisminiatur in Frankreich, Vienna and Leipzig, 1911, p. 94.
L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, I, pp. 55-56 (as 'a masterpiece'), II, p. 911 (erroneously as dated 1819), illustrated III, pl. 28, no. 25.

Exhibited

Geneva, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Chefs-d'oeuvre de la miniature et de la gouache, 1956, no. 22.
Vienna, Albertina, Meisterwerke der europäischen Miniaturmalerei von 1750 bis 1850, no. 23, illustrated pl. 5 (erroneously as dated 1819).

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Lot Essay

Princess Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans was a twin daughter of Louis Philippe II of Orléans, known as Philippe Égalité and his wife Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon-Penthièvre. During the French Revolution, in 1792, she fled France with her governess, Madame de Genlis, and went to Belgium and later Switzerland where she joined a convent. During the Reign of Terror her father was executed by guillotine and her mother was banished to Spain. Princess Louise Adélaïde returned to Paris on the restoration of her brother, Louis-Philippe to the throne, and became one of his most loyal advisors.
A portrait miniature of the present sitter by Frédéric Millet (d. 1859) is in the British Royal Collection (see R. Walker, Miniatures in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, Cambridge, 1992, illustrated p. 428, no. 962).

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