Portrait Of The Duchess Of Angouleme Embroidery On Silk, Madame Royale Daughter Of Marie Antoinette

Old & rare portrait of the Duchess of Angouleme. Restoration period work. Profile woven on silk, framed with fleur-de-lis. Gilded wood frame revealing the reverse of the silk. A similar model is listed by: Maison Duthilleul, portrait of the Duchess of Angouleme, after Joseph Theodore Richomme, Lyon 1814-1824, La factory des grands Hommes p47 The frame measures 21cm x 19cm Very good condition Marie-Thérèse de France, nicknamed “Madame Royale”, born December 19, 1778 in Versailles and died October 19, 1851 in Frohsdorf in Austria, is 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 once 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. Scrutinized for a good part of her life by both her admirers and her detractors, reporting on her daily actions and actions, “Madame Royale” despite herself became the heroine of songs, poems, and contemporary stories, even insults. Because she remains the last surviving child of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, “Madame Royale” has deeply marked certain minds. Thus, Chateaubriand wrote of her: “[S]her sufferings rose so high that they became one of the greatness of the revolution. » Likewise, the Duchess of Dino affirmed, as early as 1833: “[S]he is, incontestably, the person most pursued by fate that history can offer.