Diademed bust of Marie d’Orléans to right, wearing a single strand of pearls, MARIE D’ORLEANS – DUCHESSE DE WURTEMBERG, rev.  the statue of Jeanne d’Arc, STATUE DE JEANNE D’ARC, 52mm (KR 192; Ebner 140; Wurster 1297).  Extremely fine.                                                                                                
 
Marie d’Orléans, the daughter of Louis XVIII, was an accomplished painter and sculptor, completed the statue in 1837 and the original can still be seen at Versailles.  1837 was also the year she was married to Duke Alexander of Württemberg (1804–1881).