Marie-Marguerite-Franoise Rouchier, ne Jaser

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Marie-Marguerite-Franoise Rouchier, ne Jaser
Pulchrie de Montmorency, Marquise de Mortemart, nearly full face in dark dress with smocked sleeves, white lace collar, blue scarf tucked in her belt, wearing a frilled bonnet tied under her chin; olive green drapery background
on card, signed 'M.te R. Jaser.', gilt-metal mount
oval, 4.7/8in. (124mm.) high; Laure de Crussol d'Uzs, Comtesse d'Hunolstein, in white dress with flowers at sleeves, her dark hair in ringlets; and Princesse Yolande de Polignac, Duchesse de Bisaccia, in white dress, wearing an ermine-bordered blue stole over her shoulders (Ccile Villeneuve) (both damaged)
both with remnants of signature '[Vi]lleneuve' and '[Ville]neuve', both in gilt-metal Alph. Giroux & Cie, Paris easel frames with ribbon surmount
ovals, 3.7/8in. (98mm.) high (3)

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Anne-Elonore-Pulchrie de Montmorency (1776-1863) was married to Victor de Rochechouart, Marquis de Mortemart (1780-1834), Peer of France, in 1801. Princesse Yolande de Polignac (1830-1855) was the first wife of Sosthne, Comte de La Rochefoucault, Duc de Doudeauville and Duca di Bisaccia.

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