Jean-Baptiste Madou 1796-1877

Estimate

800 - 1,200 USD

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Description

Jean-Baptiste Madou
Portraits of the Children of Leopold I and Louise of Belgium
signed
graphite and watercolor on paper (3 works in one frame)
9 3/4 by 7 1/4 in. and 10 1/2 by 7 7/8 in.
24.8 by 18.5 cm and 26.7 by 20 cm

one signed and dated Madou 1837 lower left

Provenance

Collection of the Duc de Guise, Paris
Tableaux, Mobilier et Livres Apparenant à Mgr le Comte de Paris et Madame la Comtesse de Paris, sold, Sotheby's, Monaco, December 14, 1996, lot 88, illustrated

Exhibited

Brussells, Palais des Beaux-Arts, n.d.

Catalogue Note

Jean-Baptiste Madou was drawing professor to the children of the Belgian Royal Family.

The children depicted are, in the centre, Léopold Duke of Brabant and the future king of Belgium, known as Léopold II (1840-1927), and in the two flanking images his sister Charlotte-Marie-Emilie, Duchess of Saxe (1840-1927). In 1864 she married Maximilien, Archduke of Austria who, in 1864, accepted the imperial Crown of Mexico. His reign ended tragically when he was shot in 1867. Charlotte went mad and spent the last years of her life in the castle of Bouchout in Belgium.