£750
Bernard Picart (French 1673-1733), Maria Luisa of Savoy (1678-1714), Queen Consort of Spain, 3/4 length portrait seated and looking right, red chalk, pencil and wash on paper, 17.5cm x 24cm, signed in pencil 'B Picart' lower right and inscribed 'la premiere femme de philipe V. roy despagne fille du duc de savoye et ... la ducheste de Bourgogne de France' possibly a design for an engraving, a remarkably similar engraving having been produced by Claude Duflos (1665-1727) circa 1705: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Engraving_of_Dona_Maria_Luisa_Gabriella_de_Savoya,_Reyna_de_Las_Espanas.jpg
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24.6% inc VAT*
