fme_480915 - MARIE DE FRANCE, DUCHESS OF WURTTEMBERG Fille de Louis-Philippe

MARIE DE FRANCE, DUCHESS OF WURTTEMBERG Fille de Louis-Philippe AU

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Type : Fille de Louis-Philippe

Date: 1839

Metal : red copper

Diameter : 24 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Engraver Petit

Weight : 8,03 g.

Edge : lisse

Puncheon : sans poinçon

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Patine marron. Traces de manipulation dans les champs. Faible usure

Catalogue references :

COLLIGNON 1157

Obverse

Obverse legend : MARIE DE FRANCE DUCHESSE DE WURTEMBERG..

Obverse description : Tête diadémée à gauche de la duchesse, signé PETIT F..

Reverse

Reverse legend : UN ANGE EST REMONTE AU CIEL. // 2 JANVIER / 1839.

Reverse description : La duchesse représentée comme un ange, une croix serrée dans les bras entre les pics et marteau du Wurtemberg et une couronne sur un coussin; signé PETIT F..

Commentary

Très rare et intéressant portrait de la fille cadette de Louis-Philippe, artiste et sculpteur. Elle sculpta l'ange qui se trouve sur le tombeau du duc d'Orléans et qui est repris sur ses jetons. Elle épousa le prince de Wurtemberg, tomba malade et mourut à Pise, le 6 janvier 1839 .

Historical background

MARIE DE FRANCE, DUCHESS OF WURTTEMBERG

(1813-1839)

Princess Marie d'Orléans is the second daughter of Louis-Philippe I and his wife Queen Marie-Amélie de Bourbon, Princess of the Two Sicilies. She was born in Palermo on April 12, 1813. On October 17, 1837, Marie d'Orléans married Prince Alexander of Württemberg (1804-1881), son of Alexander of Württemberg and his wife Antoinette of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. The youngest of a German sovereign family, Alexander is the nephew, through his father, of King Frederick I of Württemberg, and, through his mother, of King Leopold I of the Belgians. In 1838, the Duchess of Württemberg, plagued by pulmonary tuberculosis, left for Pisa in the hope that the climate would favor her recovery. She died on January 6, 1839. She was buried in the royal chapel of Dreux, necropolis of Orleans, on January 27. Pupil of Ary Scheffer, Princess Marie is endowed with a recognized artistic talent which imposes her as the first French romantic woman sculptor. In 2008, the Louvre Museum dedicated the first major exhibition of his works (sculptures and drawings) and personal effects to him..