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Description: Eugène-Emmanuel Amaury-Duval (Paris 1808-1885)
The Coronation of the Virgin
signed and dated 'AMAURY-DUVAL. 1846.' and inscribed 'Sυtυa Mater Dei Coronata.'
pencil, pen and black ink, watercolour, heightened with gold, inscribed in an arched top
14½ x 17 in. (37 x 43 cm.)

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Provenance: Originally part of an album given by the Orléans family in 1846 as a wedding present to Marie-Louise Fernande de Bourbon (Madrid 1832-1897 Sevilla), duchesse de Montpensier;
Her daughter Isabelle d'Orléans;
Amélie, Queen of Portugal, and by descent to the Comte and Comtesse de Paris.

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This watercolour is based on the decoration Le Couronnement de la Vierge in the chapelle de la Vierge in Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois which was commissioned around 1845. A preparatory sketch for this composition is currently located in the Musée Rolin in Autun.