Sophia Frederica Mathilda, Queen of the Netherlands (1818-1877), in lace-bordered grey dress, large pearl brooch pinned to corsage, triple strand pearl necklace, diadem of five gem set diamond stars in her light brown hair dressed in ringlets

细节

E. BILLETTE
Sophia Frederica Mathilda, Queen of the Netherlands (1818-1877), in lace-bordered grey dress, large pearl brooch pinned to corsage, triple strand pearl necklace, diadem of five gem set diamond stars in her light brown hair dressed in ringlets
signed 'E. Billette' (lower left)
oval, 1 7/8 in. (48 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount surmounted by a coronet

来源

Christie's, Geneva, 17 November 1992, lot 427.

注意事项

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拍品专文

Sophie, daughter of King William I of Württemberg (see lot 238) and his wife Catherina Paulovna was married to her cousin King William III of the Netherlands in 1839 and became daughter-in-law of her aunt, Queen Anna Paulovna of the Netherlands. This miniature is a variant after an oil painting by Winterhalter of which two versions are known, one signed in the Rijksmuseum and the other signed and dated 1863 exhibited in Het Loo. Another similar miniature, unsigned, is illustrated in K. E. Schaffers-Bodenhausen and M. E. Tiethoff-Spliethoff, Catalogue of the Portrait-Miniatures in the Collections of the House of Orange-Nassau, Zwolle, 1993, p. 160, no. 122.