"Belt" bracelet in yellow gold 750‰ and half-pearls mounted - Lot 17

"Belt" bracelet in yellow gold 750‰ and half-pearls mounted as a brooch. Pin in yellow gold 750‰. French work partly from the second half of the 19th century, transformations. Dimensions :6,1x1,7cm. Gross weight: 13.2g. (Traces of soldering, oxidation). According to family tradition, this bracelet was given to the Moitessier family by Empress Eugénie. From the estate of Pierre Moitessier (1880-1966), French lawyer and senior civil servant. A prominent family under the Second Empire, the Moitessiers are best remembered for two portraits of Madame Moitessier, née Inès de Foucauld (1821-1897), painted by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and now in the National Gallery in Washington and London.