French School — FRENCH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1820

FRENCH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1820

$500
FRENCH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1820 Marie-Caroline (1798-1870), Duchesse de Berry, née Princess Caroline of Naples and Sicily, in black velvet riding coat with brass buttons in the shape of flowers, black braiding across her front, into which a pocket watch suspended from a chain is tucked, pink roses pinned at waist, black lace-collared cloak over red Cashmere scarf, black bonnet decorated with black plumes over her fair hair dressed in ringlets; landscape background on ivory oval, 4½ in. (114 mm.) high, stamped gilt-metal mount within rectangular lemonwood-veneered wood panel