GERMAN SCHOOL, CIRCA 1670/1680

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GERMAN SCHOOL, CIRCA 1670/1680
Eleonore-Marie of Austria (1653-1697), Queen of Poland 1670-1673 and later Duchess of Lorraine, in blue embroidered dress with white lace trim, three drop-pearls at corsage and at shoulder, pearl necklace and drop-pearl and sapphire earrings, sapphire ornament and pearls in her curled brown hair
enamel on gold
oval, 1.3/8 in. (35 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame with garnet border, the reverse enamelled in blue and white depicting two clasped hands above a heart

Provenance

A castle in Switzerland; Sotheby's, London, 2 November 1970, lot 49 (as the Duchess of Portsmouth after Petitot, 142 gns. to S. J. Philips).
Dr Gudrun Illgen Collection, Darmstadt; Auction Hugo Ruef, Munich, 8 November 2000, lot 1064 (sitter unidentified).
With D. S. Lavender (Antiques) Ltd., in 2000 (as by Jean Petitot).

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Lot Essay

Eleonore-Marie of Austria (1653-1679), Queen of Poland 1670-1673 and later Duchess of Lorraine, was the daughter of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, and Eleanor of Mantua. In 1670, she married Michael Korybut Wisniowiecki, King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, but he died just three years later. In 1678, she married Charles V, Duke of Lorraine, by whom she had six children.

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