Snuffbox with portrait of Louis XVI (1754–1793), King of France

Attributed to P.M.C.
Miniature by Louis Marie Sicardi French

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This work is one of the numerous autograph repetitions of a popular miniature portrait of Louis XVI by Sicardi of which 30.58.3 is another examine. The date has been read as 1790, but it is evidently 1780.

Snuffbox with portrait of Louis XVI (1754–1793), King of France, Attributed to P.M.C., Gold, enamel; ivory, Swiss, possibly Vevey

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Snuffbox with portrait of Louis XVI (1754–1793), King of France, Attributed to P.M.C., Gold, enamel; ivory, Swiss, possibly Vevey
Snuffbox with portrait of Louis XVI (1754–1793), King of France, Attributed to P.M.C., Gold, enamel; ivory, Swiss, possibly Vevey

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