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- Louis-François Aubry (1767 - 1851)
- Caroline Murat, Queen of Naples
- France
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- Date: c. 1808-12
- Object Type: Miniature
- Medium: Watercolour on ivory
- Image size: 6.6 x 5.1 cm
- Inv: M4
- Location: West Gallery III
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- Aubry painted many members of Napoleon's large family, including the Emperor himself. Formally catalogued as a portrait of Pauline Bonaparte, Napoleon's second sister, this is actually a portrait of her younger sister, as is clear from comparison with other images. It also derives from a portrait of Caroline by Isabey in the Louvre, Paris (RF30753). Caroline is shown wearing a superb blue velvet dress with a court collar called a 'chérusque'. Her magnificent jewels comprise a tiara of diamonds radiating upwards from a large turquoise in the centre, with further turquoises set among diamond scrolls; earrings of turqoises and diamonds; and a necklace of alternate small and larger oval clusters of turquoises within diamond borders.