Description
Round brown tortoiseshell box mounted in 18K (750) gold chased with interlacing, the lid inlaid with a presumed oval miniature portrait of the Dauphin Louis-Charles de France, future Louis XVII (1785-1795), aged about 4 years, in a pigeon's throat costume possibly for the mourning of his brother Louis-Joseph de France (1781-1789). Paris, 1774-1780. Discharge by Jean-Baptiste Fouache. D.7,1 cm. Miniature : 3,9 x 3,3 cm. Exhibition : Musée du Petit Palais, Paris, 1900. Provenance : - Collection of Eugène Marie Joseph de Goujon, marquis de Thuisy (1836-1913). - His sale, Drouot, May 30, 1901. - Collection Gaston Menier (1855-1934). - Its sale, November 22, 1936, lot 68 (as "presumed portrait of Louis XVII"). - Pescheteau sale, Drouot, June 18, 1970, lot 42 (as "portrait in bust of a blond child"). - Alain Bancel Collection (1927-2002). - His sale, Piasa, Drouot, May 21, 2003, lot 309 (as "presumed portrait of the new Dauphin Louis-Charles"). - French private collection.
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Round brown tortoiseshell box mounted in 18K (750) gold chased with interlacing, the lid inlaid with a presumed oval miniature portrait of the Dauphin Louis-Charles de France, future Louis XVII (1785-1795), aged about 4 years, in a pigeon's throat costume possibly for the mourning of his brother Louis-Joseph de France (1781-1789). Paris, 1774-1780. Discharge by Jean-Baptiste Fouache. D.7,1 cm. Miniature : 3,9 x 3,3 cm. Exhibition : Musée du Petit Palais, Paris, 1900. Provenance : - Collection of Eugène Marie Joseph de Goujon, marquis de Thuisy (1836-1913). - His sale, Drouot, May 30, 1901. - Collection Gaston Menier (1855-1934). - Its sale, November 22, 1936, lot 68 (as "presumed portrait of Louis XVII"). - Pescheteau sale, Drouot, June 18, 1970, lot 42 (as "portrait in bust of a blond child"). - Alain Bancel Collection (1927-2002). - His sale, Piasa, Drouot, May 21, 2003, lot 309 (as "presumed portrait of the new Dauphin Louis-Charles"). - French private collection.
