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Miniature hand-painted oval depicting the three-quarter portrait of the King of France Louis XVI *, in embroidered garments and bearing the medal of the Order of the Holy Spirit **, in a gilded wood frame, vintage eighteenth century.
This miniature is in good condition and is of a remarkable quality. She is under glass.
A note: some accidents on the frame, wear of time, see photos.
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* Louis XVI (1754-1793) is king of France and Navarre from 1774 to 1791 and king of the French from 1791 to 1792. Louis XVI is the son of Dauphin Louis-Ferdinand of France and Marie-Josephus of Saxony. He succeeded his grandfather Louis XV in 1774. The reign of Louis XVI is marked by important reforms concerning the rights of people. The last years of the reign of Louis XVI are marked by important stock market speculations, then by the French Revolution which, while taking up some of the reforms supported by the king before 1789, transform the political role of the king and the system of government of the France by putting an end to the absolute monarchy of divine right. At first, King Louis XVI became a constitutional monarch facing an increasingly hostile opposition. In a second time, the king is overthrown on August 10, 1792 by the republican sections and the monarchy is abolished on September 21st. Found guilty for treason by the National Convention, he was condemned to death and guillotined on January 21, 1793 on the Place de la Revolution in Paris.
** The order of the Holy Spirit was, during the two and a half centuries of its existence, the most prestigious order of chivalry of the French monarchy. On December 31, 1578, in full wars of religion, Henry III founded the "Order and Militia of Benoît Saint-Esprit". Suppressed in 1791 during the French Revolution, the order of the Holy Spirit was reinstated in 1814. The order was definitively abolished by Louis-Philippe I in 1830.
