Frankreich 1st half of the 19th century - photo 1
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Frankreich 1st half of the 19th century

Lot 1217
20.03.2025 14:00UTC +01:00
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AuctioneerKunstauktionshaus Neumeister
Event locationGermany, München
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ID 1386314
Lot 1217 | Frankreich 1st half of the 19th century
Estimate value
€ 3 500 – 4 000
Paperweight (presse-papier) with a miniature portrait of Princess Maria Amalia of Bourbon
Inscribed "telle que jétai 1808" on the banderole of the frame. Watercolour and opaque paints on ivory. 4.7 x 3.7 cm (in the high oval) cm. Framed with gold cord, laid on hair work. Pointed elliptical, 585 yellow gold frame (7 x 17 cm). This is set in polished black stone (3.8 x 18.5 x 9.1 cm).

Prinzessin Maria Amalia (Marie-Amélie) von Bourbon, Tochter König Ferdinands I. beider Sizilien und seiner Gemahlin Maria Karolina, Erzherzogin von Österreich, heiratete im Jahre 1809 Louis Philippe d'Orléans (1773 Paris - 1850 Claremont House, Esher, Surrey), von 1830-1848 König der Franzosen.

Offenbar beschenkte Marie-Amélie anlässlich eines Jahrestages ihrer Hochzeit ihren Gatten mit diesem Briefbeschwerer. Nachdem die Banderole rückblickend ("telle que jétais" i. S. "so sah ich damals aus") angibt, dass die Miniatur die junge Prinzessin im Jahr 1808 wiedergibt, erschließt sich die Datierung der Miniatur. Eine Miniatur, die somit ein Jahr vor ihrer Eheschließung angefertigt wurde. Mutmaßung muss bleiben, ob es sich - den damaligen Gebräuchen folgend - um eine Miniatur handelt, die dem zukünftigen Bräutigam im Vorfeld der Hochzeit überschickt wurde. Der Austausch von Bildnisminiaturen im Rahmen der Arrangierung von Eheschließungen, bei denen Braut und Bräutigum noch in größerer geographischer Distanz lebten, war bis ins 19. Jahrhundert hinein üblich.

Die Miniatur wurde für die Katalogisierung aus konservatorischen Gründen nicht ausgerahmt.

The miniature was not deframed for the description for conservation reasons.



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Provenienz: estate of Dr. Alexander Eugen, Duke of Württemberg (1933-2024).
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