JEAN-BAPTISTE ISABEY (FRENCH, 1767-1835)

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THE PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN GENTLEMAN

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JEAN-BAPTISTE ISABEY (FRENCH, 1767-1835)
Marie Louise of Austria (1791-1847), Empress of the French 1810-1814, later Duchess of Parma, in white Empire-line dress with high frilled collar
signed 'Isabey' (mid-right)
on ivory
oval, 1½ in. (39 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount with tied ribbon surmount

Provenance

Ernst Holzscheiter Collection, Meilen; part II, Sotheby's, London, 1 May 1980, lot 62.

Exhibited

Arenenberg, Napoleonmuseum, Miniaturen und Karikaturen, 1954, no. 22.

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Lot Essay

Marie Louise, daughter of Emperor Francis I of Austria and his second wife Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily, married Emperor Napoleon I as his second wife. After his exile she divorced and married Count von Neipperg and, after the Vienna Congress, became Duchess of Parma.

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