IGNAZIO-PIO-VITTORIANO CAMPANA (FRANCO-ITALIAN, 1744-1786)

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IGNAZIO-PIO-VITTORIANO CAMPANA (FRANCO-ITALIAN, 1744-1786)
Maria Theresa of Savoy (1756-1805), Comtesse d'Artois, in white dress with blue bodice with white bow, white muslin fichu, high-piled powdered hair dressed with a ribbon and ringlets falling over her shoulders
on ivory
oval, 2¼ in. (57 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame with blue enamel surround

Provenance

By direct family descent of the sitter;
A Nobleman; Christie's, Geneva, 15 November 1994, lot 169.

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Lot Essay

Maria Theresa of Savoy was the daughter of Victor Amadeus III (see lot 281) and his wife Infanta Maria Antonia of Spain. She married, in 1773, Charles, Comte d'Artois, the youngest grandson of Louis XV of France. During the French Revolution she fled France with her husband and took refuge in her homeland of Savoy. After her death the Comte d'Artois became King Charles X of France.

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