Heinrich Friedrich Füger (Austro-German, 1751-1818)

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Heinrich Friedrich Füger (Austro-German, 1751-1818)
Marie Thérèse Charlotte, Duchess of Angoulême (1778-1851), known as Madame Royale, wearing a portrait miniature depicting King Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette and the Dauphin in profile
Inscribed and dated on the reverse ‘Peinte á Vienne / Par henri Fuger / le 26 de[c] 1795’
On ivory
Oval, 86 mm. high, silver-gilt frame with seed-pearl border

Provenance

Friedrich Neuburg Collection, Litomerice, Moravia; Part I, Hôtel Drouot, 27 March 1939, lot 68.
Ernst Holzscheiter Collection, Meilen (inv. nos. MD/0178 and 233).

Literature

von der Mühll 1947, p. 42, illustrated in colour no. 4.
Schidlof 1964, I, p. 275 (described as ‘typical’).
Keil 2009, p. 310, no. WV349.

Exhibited

Vienna 1965, no. 171.

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Lot Essay

The sitter was the eldest child of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette and married her cousin the Duke of Angoulême, the eldest son of the future King Charles X of France. She survived the Reign of Terror but was imprisoned until 18 December 1795, meaning that the present portrait was painted shortly after her release. She stayed in Austria until 4 May 1799 and remained in exile until 1815 when she returned to France.
The present portrait miniature compares closely with a three-quarters length oil on canvas portrait of the same sitter by Füger (now in the Hermitage, inv. no. ГЭ-1344) which was painted circa 1796 during her period of exile in Vienna.
The portrait miniature worn around the sitter’s neck is probably a miniature en grisaille by Piat Joseph Sauvage (1744-1818).

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