A Hellenistic Marble Head of Isis or a Ptolemaic Queen, 3rd/2nd Century B.C.

turned to her right, her centrally parted hair bound in a fillet and falling in spiral braids at the sides.

estate of Henri de France (1908-1999), Comte de Paris (Christie's, Paris, October 14th, 2008, no. 189, illus.)

Ends of spiral curls fragmentary, slight chip on chin and nose, surface somewhat worn, top of head seems to have been polished down on each side in antiquity, minor stress cracks on one side of top of head
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For related examples see Sotheby's, New York, June 5th, 2008, no. 78, and E.D. Reeder, Hellenistic Art in the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, 1988, no. 28.

Henri de France (1908-1999), former head of La Maison de France and pretender to the throne, received the title of Comte de Paris in 1929. He married his cousin Isabelle d'Orléans-Bragance in Palermo in 1931. Following the repeal of the French exile law in 1950 the count and countess returned to France and settled at "Coeur- Volant" in Louveciennes, between Versailles and Paris. Later in life they moved to Paris. In 1974, inspired by a memorable exhibition at the "Archives Nationales de Paris", the Comte and Comtesse de Paris set up their own foundation, "Fondation Saint-Louis," to which they entrusted their family residences and treasures.