Miniature: Portrait Of Marie-thérèse Charlotte Of France, Duchess Of Angoulême

Portrait of Marie-Thérèse Charlotte of France, duchess of Angoulême (1778-1851).
Called also Madame Royale
François Villiers HUET (1772-1813) attributed to
Oval miniature representing Madame la Dauphine, daughter of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, in three-quarter bust on a green background, head tilted to the left, wearing a white shawl on the shoulders decorated with gold lilies and a set of sapphires.
Good condition.
In a rectangular wooden frame with an oval view, surrounded by chiseled gilded brass.
On the back a handwritten mention "Augustin".
Around 1807-1814.
H_7.5 cm L_6.3 cm

Related works: Our unpublished portrait, most probably executed during the exile of the Duchess of Angoulême, is to be compared to a portrait by François Huet-Villiers, produced before 1813, known by a print kept at the BNF and which inspired many other portraits during the Restoration. This painter, a pupil of his father Jean-Baptiste Huet (1745-1810), was appointed painter in miniatures upon his arrival in London in 1803, where he remained until his death. We know that the Duchess of Angoulême settled in the English capital in 1807, at Hartwell Castle, in the company of the future King Louis XVIII.