Pair of French Louis XV Style 19th Century Ladies Portraits

French Louis XVI (18/19th Cent) portrait oil painting of young woman wearing a blue dress holding a pink ribbon with flowers in her hair in a gold carved frame (style of NATTIER)

Copy of a classical portrait of Russian royal Marija Federova showing woman in formal gown at desk

These elegant enamel plaques was painted in Limoges, a town in the south-west of France. While Limoges was highly regarded for its painted enamel wares in the 15th Century, in the following periods there was a decline in production. In the mid-19th Century, however, items like this pair began to be created, reviving the techniques of enamel painting that were perfected in the medieval period. The plaques depict two women, both with wavy blonde shoulder-length hair, and similar facial features. The women may be sisters, possibly even twins. One woman wears a pale pink dress...

A magnificent and historically rich pair of Belle Époque portraits depicting King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette, created by celebrated French engraver Jean-Gothard Muller in t...