"18th Century Portrait, Madame Royale Daughter Of Marie Antoinette & Louis XVI, Signed"
Old & rare pencil drawing. Royalist portrait depicting the young Madame Royale. The princess is represented in bust, dressed in a muslin fichu. Portrait dated 1796 and signed in sanguine A. Boudrot. Presented in a gilded wooden frame. The pendant featuring the young Louis XVII is on sale in another ad. 19cm x 15.5cm In good condition Marie-Thérèse Charlotte of France, nicknamed "Madame Royale", born December 19, 1778 in Versailles and died October 19, 1851 in Frohsdorf, Austria, was the first child of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette . After a childhood spent at court, she was the only royal child to survive the French Revolution. Exiled outside France in 1795, she returned to her country from 1814 to 1830, where she again became one of the most influential people in the royal family. Condemned to a new exile after the revolution of 1830, she died in 1851 far from her country, under the courtesy title of Countess of Marnes.