Live auction - Lot 209
[Miniature]
Marie Louise of Austria.
1811
Hammer price: €
1.700
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
Gouache on panel, 17,8 x 14,3 cm (visible), signed and dated "Mathias Schm[?]er 1811" (some paint losses outside central portrait).
In gilt sculpted frame (not studied outside frame).
Refined portrait of Marie Louise (1791-1847), second wife of Napoleon and French Empress. Dated the year after their marriage, hence the eagle with ring at bottom.