Lot 309: LOUIS-MARIE AUTISSIER (FRANCO-BELGIAN, 1772-1830)

LOUIS-MARIE AUTISSIER (FRANCO-BELGIAN, 1772-1830)
Princess Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans (1777-1847), seated on a wooden chair, in white silk dress with lace sleeves and frilled cuffs, yellow sash around waist and tied in bows at cuffs, embroidered Cashmere shawl draped over her right shoulder and across her left arm, wearing an elaborate green cord necklace set with pearls and with pearl-set tasseled ends, white lace cap over her dark hair dressed in ringlets, her right arm resting on the back of the chair
signed and dated 'Autissier pυt à Paris. 1818.' (lower right)
on ivory
oval, 6 11/16 in. (170 mm.) high, within rectangular green plush-lined red leather case, the cover stamped with gilt Gothic intials GLK and gilt border

Geneva, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Chefs-d'oeuvre de la miniature et de la gouache, 1956, no. 22.
Vienna, Albertina, Meisterwerke der europäischen Miniaturmalerei von 1750 bis 1850, no. 23, illustrated pl. 5 (erroneously as dated 1819).

L. R. Schidlof, Die Bildnisminiatur in Frankreich, Vienna and Leipzig, 1911, p. 94.
L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, I, pp. 55-56 (as 'a masterpiece'), II, p. 911 (erroneously as dated 1819), illustrated III, pl. 28, no. 25.

Maxime Hébert (1853-1945) Collection, Paris.