Portrait of Comtesse de Provence (1753-1810), half-length, in a turquoise dress with white lace trim and ribbon

Details

Joseph-Siffred Duplessis (Carpentras 1725-1802 Versailles)
Portrait of Comtesse de Provence (1753-1810), half-length, in a turquoise dress with white lace trim and ribbon
oil on canvas, oval
31¾ x 25¼ in. (80.6 x 64.2 cm.)
in a Louis XVI carved and gilded frame

Provenance

With Galerie J. Kugel, Paris.
Acquired from Evgret von Bary, Munich.

Literature

J.-P. Chabaud, Joseph-Siffred Duplessis (1725-1802), Etudes Comtadines, Mazan, 2003, p. 133, illus. p. 134.

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Lot Essay

The sitter, Marie Josephine Louise of Savoy, princess of Sardinia and of Piedmont, was the third child and second daughter of Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia and Maria Antonieta of Bourbon, Infanta of Spain. Her maternal grandparents were Philip V of Spain and Elizabeth Farnese. She married Louis XVIII of France in May 1771, however, the couple remained childless and Marie died at Hartwell House, the English residence of the exiled French Royal family, in 1810.

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