Offered by Antiquités Olivier Alberteau
General antiques dealer in Nantes
Important Carrara marble bust representing the presumed portrait of the Princess de Lamballe.
19th century work.
Height: 85 cm.
Width: 42 cm.
Princess of the House of Savoy born on September 8, 1749, she married Louis-Alexandre de Bourbon, Prince of Lamballe and son of the Duke of Penthièvre. Friend of the dauphine and then queen Marie-Antoinette, she remained devoted to her throughout her life and paid for it with her own during the massacres of September 1792.