Nee a Versailles, le 19 Decembre, 1788.
Painted by Huet Villiers. Engraved by Charles Turner.
London: Pub.d Jan.y 1. 1812, by Mess.rs. Colnaghi, Printseller, Cockspur St. Haymarket.
Mezzotint with engraving, sheet 375 x 255mm (14¾ x 10"). Trimmed to plate.
Half-length portrait of Marie Thérèse Charlotte, Duchess of Angoulême (1778-1851), seated on a terrace with her head turned slightly left, wearing a pale gown with a ruffled neckline and an embroidered cloak, framed by an engraved border with the royal coat of arms below. Marie Thérèse Charlotte was the eldest child of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, and their only child to reach adulthood. In 1799, she married her cousin Louis Antoine, son of Charles X, becoming Duchess of Angoulême and the sole survivor of her immediate family after the French Revolution. She became Dauphine in 1824 when Charles X took the throne. After the July Revolution, both he and her husband abdicated. Legitimists regard her as the rightful Queen of France from 1836 to 1844.
W16. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68583] £220.00
London: Pub.d Jan.y 1. 1812, by Mess.rs. Colnaghi, Printseller, Cockspur St. Haymarket.
Mezzotint with engraving, sheet 375 x 255mm (14¾ x 10"). Trimmed to plate.
Half-length portrait of Marie Thérèse Charlotte, Duchess of Angoulême (1778-1851), seated on a terrace with her head turned slightly left, wearing a pale gown with a ruffled neckline and an embroidered cloak, framed by an engraved border with the royal coat of arms below. Marie Thérèse Charlotte was the eldest child of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, and their only child to reach adulthood. In 1799, she married her cousin Louis Antoine, son of Charles X, becoming Duchess of Angoulême and the sole survivor of her immediate family after the French Revolution. She became Dauphine in 1824 when Charles X took the throne. After the July Revolution, both he and her husband abdicated. Legitimists regard her as the rightful Queen of France from 1836 to 1844.
W16. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68583] £220.00