Fine Antique 18th Century French Revolution Portrait Miniature, Royalist, Torches Top Easel Frame

Fine Antique 18th Century French Revolution Portrait Miniature, Royalist, Torches Top Easel Frame

$695.00
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Miniature portrait of a lady of the court, aristocrat, French Revolution era (c.1785-89), beautifully captured moment in peaceful landscape setting, her Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette era hair and gown with black bustier and a bare bodice which is also considered as a 'naughty'. She is posed and enhanced by the flowers displaying her allegiance to the crown. In this era, a lot of the French portrait miniatures do include iconographical flowers - some representing Royalist politics and others decidedly for the Republic, and revolution.  Imagine the upheaval in her life; many Royalists were being arrested, even beheaded, and others escaped France to live in exile until the terror was over and a restoration of the Bourbon Kings (a period of nearly 20 years). I have opened this perfect little painting to see if there might be a signature along an edge but found no signature nor ID. Even so, It's a passport of sorts, and instantly identifies her as a supporter of the Bourbon Dynastic Kings

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