Nicolas de LARGILLIERRE (Paris, 1656 - 1746)

Portrait of Marie-Adélaïde of Savoy, Duchess of Burgundy, depicted aged around 15 (1685-1714), future mother of Louis XV

80,3 x 64,8 cm

Oil on its original oval canvas (lined)
Gilt wood frame bearing the inscription P. 199 BIS MARIE ADELAIDE DE SAVOYE, DUCHESSE DE BOURGOGNE

Bears an inscription on the back of the canvas: "Marie Adelaide of Savoy, Duchess of Burgundy, then Dauphine, eldest daughter of Victor Amédée II, Duke of Savoy, then King of Sicily and then of Sardinia, and of Anne Marie of Orléans, born on December 6, 1685, married on December 7, 1697 to Louis de France Duke of Burgundy, then Dauphin; died at Versailles on February 12, 1712"

Top left, red wax seal with the coat of arms of the Bourbon Restoration (1815-1830); stenciled mark of the Louis-Philippe collections; L.P.I fire mark on the central crosspiece of the frame and annotated in pen on the frame "purchased at the sale of the Palais Royal by the Duke of Vienna"

Top right, inventory number in stencil: n°199 bis (collection of the Château d’Eu in 1824)

On the frame, an old label from the Garde Meuble Public Bedel & Cie 17 rue Monsigny under n°77231;

Provenance:

· Collection of Louis Philippe, H.S.H. Monseigneur the Duke of Orléans at the Château d’Eu, 1824, under n°199 ter

· Collection of the king at the Château d’Eu, 1836, under number 298 or 298 bis

· France, private collection

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