A CONTINENTAL PORCELAIN RECTANGULAR PLAQUE

19TH CENTURY, SPURIOUS INTERLACED L MARKS, IMPRESSED 33.42

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A CONTINENTAL PORCELAIN RECTANGULAR PLAQUE
19TH CENTURY, SPURIOUS INTERLACED L MARKS, IMPRESSED 33.42
Painted with a portrait of Marie Antoinette in the manner of Elisabeth Louise Vigéee-Le Brun, standing wearing a plumed headdress and elaborate silver silk and lace gown, beside a crown and blue cushion embroidered with fleur-de-lys, within a columned exterior swaged with red velvet curtains, signed R.Leber to bottom left
16¼ in. (41.4 cm.) x 13 in. (33 cm.)

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Lot Essay

This plaque is after a portrait of Marie Antoinette by Alexandre Roslin (1718-1793), which was subsequently engraved by Barthélemy Roger. It appears that Roslin was directly inspired by Elisabeth Louise Vigée-Le Brun (1755-1842) who painted Marie Antoinette around thirty times during her time at the French court (1778-1788). Le Brun achieved membership of the French Academy in 1783 in part due to the influence of her royal patron. This plaque is based on Le Brun's portrait of the queen carried out in 1778. The portrait was a present from the queen to her brother Joseph II of Austria (now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna) and two further copies were made, one for Catherine II of Russia and the other for her apartment at Versailles.

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