German school, circa 1795 Portrait of Princess Caroline of Brunswick-Lunebourg, Princess of Wales (1768-1821) in a blue dress trimmed with fur, a miniature around her neck Watercolour and gum arabic on ivory, oval form CIC no. 2024/BE02088/CE Mounted in gilt copper, the frame engraved with the model's name, set in a later gilt bronze frame engraved with the inscription 'Caroline / Princess of Wales / Died 1821 / Sauvage' concerning the model and bearing the number '98' in ink. Portrait of princess of Wales (1768-1821) wearing a blue dress, watercolour and gum arabic on ivory, German School, ca. 1795 2.28 x 1.73 in. 5.8 x 4.4 cm Provenance: Robert Leroux de Villers Collection (inv. no. 98, label on reverse) ; Collection Madame X ; Its sale, Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Mes Baudoin et Ader, 12 May 1939, no. 81 ; Anonymous sale; Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Beaussant Lefèvre & Associés, 10 June 2011, no. 61 (sold for €10,000); Pierre Jourdan-Barry Collection (1926-2016); Then by descent; Private collection, Belgium Related work: A second version of this miniature is in the Palazzo Pitti in Florence (illustrated in Elisabetta Accrescimbeni, Il colore della memoria. Ritratti in miniatura della Collezione Barocchi, Florence, 2009, p.82, no. 36 ) The unhappy wife of the greatest seducer of his time, the Prince of Wales and future King George IV, our model is shown here in profile, probably close to her marriage in 1795. Separated from her princely husband by "mutual consent", she left England for long periods to lead a free life. Their union produced only one daughter, Charlotte, who did not survive her father. The throne thus passed to her father's brother, the Duke of Clarence, king under the name of William IV. German school, circa 1795 5.8 x 4.4 cm Related work: A second version of this miniature is in the Palazzo Pitti in Florence (illustrated in Elisabetta Accrescimbeni, Il colore della memoria. Ritratti in miniatura della Collezione Barocchi, Florence, 2009, p.82, no. 36 ) The unhappy wife of the greatest seducer of her time, the Prince of Wales and future King George IV, our model is shown here in profile, probably close to her marriage in 1795. Separated from her princely husband by "mutual consent", she left England for long periods to lead a free life. Their union produced only one daughter, Charlotte, who did not survive her father. The throne thus passed to her father's brother, the Duke of Clarence, king under the name of William IV.