A lady called Louise-Jeanne de Durfort, Duchesse de Mazarin et de la Meilleraye (1735-1781), in grey silk day-dress with lace-bordered white underslip, floral sash across bodice, pearl studded gold armlet and flowers at her right elbow, sea-green silk shawl draped around her arms and shoulders, flowers in her upswept and powdered hair and falling over her right shoulder; cloudy sky and foliate background

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FRENCH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1750
A lady called Louise-Jeanne de Durfort, Duchesse de Mazarin et de la Meilleraye (1735-1781), in grey silk day-dress with lace-bordered white underslip, floral sash across bodice, pearl studded gold armlet and flowers at her right elbow, sea-green silk shawl draped around her arms and shoulders, flowers in her upswept and powdered hair and falling over her right shoulder; cloudy sky and foliate background
on vellum
rectangular, 1¾ x 2 5/8 in. (45 x 66 mm.), gilt-metal mount within wooden frame with gilt-metal plaque with sitter's name and pierced foliate surmount by Alphonse Giroux, Paris

Provenance

Marie-Caroline, Duchesse de Berry (1798-1870).

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Lot Essay

Louise-Jeanne de Durfort, Duchesse de Mazarin et de la Meilleraye was the daughter of the politician and diplomat Emmanuel-Félicité de Durfort (1715-1789) and Charlotte Antoinette de la Porte-Mazarin (1719-1735). In 1747 she married Louis-Marie, duc d'Aumont (1732-1799) and had a daughter, Louise d'Aumont who married Jacques François Honoré IV of the Grimaldi family responsible for taking Monaco from Genoa in the 13th century. An edict of 1711 stated that the Mazarin title could only be passed down through male descendants of the original grantee and so the title became extinct with with death of the duchess in 1781.

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