Jean-Baptiste Joseph DUCHESNE de GISORS (Gisors, 1770 - Paris, 1856) Portrait of Louise d'Orléans, future Queen of the Belgians (1812-1850) in a blue dress with puffed gauze sleeves Watercolour and gum arabic on ivory, oval form Signed and dated 'Duchesne de Gisors: 1830' on the right CIC n° 2024/BE02073/CE Gilt bronze mounting with palmettes and foliage decoration Portrait of Louise d'Orléans, Queen of Belgians (1812-1850), watercolour and gum arabic on circular ivory, signed and dated, by J.-B. J. Duchesne de Gisors 3.34 x 2.75 in. 8.5 x 7.0 cm Provenance: Collection SAR La comtesse de Flandre, Brussels, 1912 ; Property of Lilian Baels, Princess of Réthy (1916-2002); Anonymous sale; Geneva, Christie's, 12 May 1987, n°185 (in another frame, sold for CHF 2 400); Pierre Jourdan-Barry Collection (1926-2016); Then by descent; Private collection, Belgium Exhibitions: Miniature Exhibition, Brussels, Hôtel du baron Goffinet, n°721 (on loan from the Countess of Flanders) Bibliography: Paul-André Lemoisne, "Le portrait-miniature en France de la régence au règne de Louis-Philippe" in L'exposition de la miniature à Bruxelles en 1912, Bruxelles et Paris, 1913, pl. XLI, fig. 189 Leo R. Schidlof, La miniature en Europe, Graz, 1964, volume I, p. 226 (described as "good") Xavier Narbaïts, Les Miniatures - précieuses et fragiles, La Cote des antiquités, no. 2, November 1987, illus. p. 34 Nathalie Lemoine-Bouchard, Les Peintres en miniature actifs en France 1650-1850, Paris, 2008, p. 208 (Vertical crack lower left through to the neck, a second crack through to the right near the signature, retouch upper left) Related work: A similar version: Collection de La Famille de France sale, Sotheby's, Paris, 29 September 2015, no. 30. Another version from the Fondation Napoléon, Artcurial, Paris, 9 December 2019, no. 267 (sold for €7,200) Duchesne de Gisors exhibited an enamel portrait of the Queen of the Belgians at the 1835 Salon (part of no. 647). Jean-Baptiste Joseph DUCHESNE de GISORS (Gisors, 1770 - Paris, 1856) 8.5 x 7.0 cm Related work: A similar version: Collection de La Famille de France sale, Sotheby's, Paris, 29 September 2015, no. 30. Another version from the Fondation Napoléon, Artcurial, Paris, 9 December 2019, no. 267 (sold for €7,200) Duchesne de Gisors exhibited an enamel portrait of the Queen of the Belgians at the 1835 Salon (part of no. 647).