Lot 225: Franz Napoleon Heigel (Paris 1813-1888 Munich)

The Marriage of the Duc de Bourgogne to Marie-Adélaïde of Savoy on 7 December 1697, in the presence of King Louis XIV; and The Presentation of the newborn Louis, Duc de Bourgogne, to his grandfather King Louis XIV
black lead, pen and brown ink, watercolor, bodycolor heightened with white, gum arabic and gold
12 x 15 3/4 in. (306 x 400 mm.) and 11 3/4 x 15 1/4 in. (296 x 385 mm.)

King Ludwig II of Bavaria, with his estate stamp (not in Lugt) on the backing.

The two compositions are after Antoine Dieu's large cartoons in Versailles painted in 1715 (C. Constans, Musée National du Château de Versailles, Les Peintures, Paris, 1995, I, nos. 1471-2).