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Source Description
Sauvage, a native of Tournai, in what was then the Austrian Netherlands, painted for the court of Louis XVI as well as for the Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory. Two miniatures appear on this box, one of Marie Antoinette, on the lid, and another of her son, which is hidden beneath a false bottom. The ill-fated Louis XVII was imprisoned in Paris in the Temple, a 12th-century building used as a jail during the Revolution. He died there in 1795 at the age of ten.
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Document identity
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35231
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""Bonbonnière"" with Portraits of Marie Antoinette and the Dauphin Louis XVII
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title
""Bonbonnière"" with Portraits of Marie Antoinette and the Dauphin Louis XVII
description
Sauvage, a native of Tournai, in what was then the Austrian Netherlands, painted for the court of Louis XVI as well as for the Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory. Two miniatures appear on this box, one of Marie Antoinette, on the lid, and another of her son, which is hidden beneath a false bottom. The ill-fated Louis XVII was imprisoned in Paris in the Temple, a 12th-century building used as a jail during the Revolution. He died there in 1795 at the age of ten.
provenance
Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1911 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1789
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Gold, Silver & Jewelry
comfit boxes
bonbon dishes
bonbonnieres
miniatures (paintings)
portraits
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3
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3
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import
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cm
width
3
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8
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1 3/16 x 3 1/8 in. (3 x 8 cm)
Source extras
dynasty
House of Bourbon
reign
Louis XVI (1774-1792)
med
tortoiseshell, gold, and white pigment on blackened ivory
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6524
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EAN
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2689
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photo
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