Beschreibung:

A Collection of sixteen portrait miniatures representing members of the Royal Houses of France, Two Sicilies and Austria including portraits of Louis XIII, King of France and Navarre (1601-1643); Maria-Carolina, Queen of Naples and Sicily (1752-1814); Louis XVI, King of France and Navarre (1754-1793) (recto), bares signature c.r.: Desfissex p [sic], Marie Antoinette, Queen of France and Navarre (1755-1793) (verso), by Charles Henri, Vicomte Desfossez (1764-1808), signed c.r.: Ch.ev Desfossez p; Leopoldo of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Prince of Salerno (1790-1851); Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre (1638-1715); Archduchess Maria Clementina of Austria, later Duchess of Calabria, Princess of Salerno (1798-1881); Francesco I, King of the Kingdom of The Two Sicilies (1777-1830); Louis XVI, King of France and Navarre (1754-1793) and his consort Queen Marie-Antoinette (1755-1793); Portrait of a Gentleman; Louis, King of Etruria, later Duke of Parma and Piacenza (1773-1803); Louis XVI, King of France and Navarre (1754-1793), his consort Queen Marie-Antoinette (1755-1793) and The Dauphin, Louis Joseph of France (1781-1789); Ferdinand, Duke of Parma and Piacenza (1751-1802); Louis Jean Marie of Bourbon, Duc de Penthièvre (1725-1793); Henry V, Comte de Chambord and his consort Archduchess Marie-Thérèse of Austria-Este (1817-1886), by G. Gabrielli, signed l.r.: G Gabrielli; Archduchess Marie-Thérèse of Austria-Este, Comtesse de Chambord (1817-1886); and Emperor Josef II (1741-1790) Quantity: 16 Sixteen, one oil on horn, one oil on tortoise shell, one carved ivory on porcelain, one brooch with jugate profiles, the others watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, variously framed, mounted together in a carved gilt-wood frame Frame 76 by 64 cm.; 30 1/2 by 25 in.