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169 - Martin VAN MEYTENS (1695–1770), follower of

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€5,000 - 6,000

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30%

Martin VAN MEYTENS (1695–1770), follower of Portrait of Maria Theresa of Austria (1717–1780) Oil on canvas H_67.5 x W_80.5 cm Re-stretched, restored The daughter of Emperor Charles VI, she succeeded him in 1740 as head of the Habsburg hereditary possessions. She reigned over Austria, Hungary, and Bohemia, among other territories. In 1736, she married François-Étienne of Lorraine, who was elected Holy Roman Emperor in 1745 under the name Francis I, thus becoming Empress Consort. She undertook major administrative, fiscal, military, and educational reforms. The mother of sixteen children, she gave birth to, among others, Marie Antoinette (1755–1793), the future Queen of France and wife of Louis XVI. She died in Vienna on November 29, 1780, after a forty-year reign.

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Auction details

The Royal Court at Versailles
Sunday, November 8
02:00 PM
13, avenue de Saint-Cloud
78000 Versailles, France

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Osenat +33 1 80 81 90 01 versailles@osenat.com
On Drouot for more than 10 years avec More than 210,000 lots published

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