Lot 343Y
French Schoolcirca 1790Marie Charlotte Corday d'Armont (1768-1793), wearing turquoise dress and white fichu drawn with a pink ribbon bow, her dark hair falling over her shoulders and dressed with a white bonnet
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French School, circa 1790
Marie Charlotte Corday d'Armont (1768-1793), wearing turquoise dress and white fichu drawn with a pink ribbon bow, her dark hair falling over her shoulders and dressed with a white bonnet.
Gilt-metal frame with pierced ribbon cresting; together with a further four miniatures portraying Ladies and Gentleman, (Continental School, late 18th and early 19th centuries), housed in a variety of gilt-metal and gilt-wood frames.
The title miniature: circular, 56mm (2 3/16in) dia. (5)
Gilt-metal frame with pierced ribbon cresting; together with a further four miniatures portraying Ladies and Gentleman, (Continental School, late 18th and early 19th centuries), housed in a variety of gilt-metal and gilt-wood frames.
The title miniature: circular, 56mm (2 3/16in) dia. (5)
Footnotes
Provenance (for the former):
The Collection of S. Addington;
Christie's, 26 April, 1883, lot 136, purchased by Agnews, £6/-/-;
Bonhams, London, The Charles E Lees Collection, 20 November 1997, lot 43.
Charlotte Corday was the French murderess who was so horrified by the behaviour of the Jacobins that she resolved to kill one of the chief revolutionaries. She succeeded in stabbing Marat to death in his bath, for which she was executed four days later.