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A LOUIS XIV GILT BRONZE-FRAMED
GOUACHE – CIRCA 1701
French school, 18th Century
An allegory of the betrothal of the Duke of Anjou
Frame height: 21 cm. (8 ¼ in.) Frame width: 29.5 cm. (11 ½ in.)
This gouache allegorises the engagement of the Duke of Anjou, the
future Philip V of Spain, to Marie-Louise of Savoy, whose marriage
took place on 2 November 1701 in Figueres (on the Franco-Spanish
border, in Catalonia). Philip’s wife, as chosen by his grandfather Louis
XIV, was the second surviving daughter of Victor Amadeus II, Duke
of Savoy. Her elder sister Marie-Adélaïde had already married the
Dauphin and would be the mother of the future Louis XV.
A LOUIS XVI GILT BRONZE AND PORPHYRY RELIEF
PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN, SIGNED AND DATED F.C.
THIERARD 1777
Height: 24 cm. (9 ½ in.) Width: 18.7 cm. (7 ¼ in.) Thickness: 2.6 cm. (1 in.)
PROVENANCE
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, New York
LITERATURE
E. Fahy and F.J.B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection: volume V, paintings, drawings,
sculpture, New York, 1973, p. 406, no. 51 (ill.)
The sculptor appears to be unrecorded.
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GOUACHE – CIRCA 1701
French school, 18th Century
An allegory of the betrothal of the Duke of Anjou
Frame height: 21 cm. (8 ¼ in.) Frame width: 29.5 cm. (11 ½ in.)
This gouache allegorises the engagement of the Duke of Anjou, the
future Philip V of Spain, to Marie-Louise of Savoy, whose marriage
took place on 2 November 1701 in Figueres (on the Franco-Spanish
border, in Catalonia). Philip’s wife, as chosen by his grandfather Louis
XIV, was the second surviving daughter of Victor Amadeus II, Duke
of Savoy. Her elder sister Marie-Adélaïde had already married the
Dauphin and would be the mother of the future Louis XV.
A LOUIS XVI GILT BRONZE AND PORPHYRY RELIEF
PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN, SIGNED AND DATED F.C.
THIERARD 1777
Height: 24 cm. (9 ½ in.) Width: 18.7 cm. (7 ¼ in.) Thickness: 2.6 cm. (1 in.)
PROVENANCE
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, New York
LITERATURE
E. Fahy and F.J.B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection: volume V, paintings, drawings,
sculpture, New York, 1973, p. 406, no. 51 (ill.)
The sculptor appears to be unrecorded.
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