Duc de Duras, facing left in blue coat with black collar, white waistcoat and cravat, wearing the blue moir sash and breast-star of the Royal French Order of the Holy Ghost and the red ribbon of another order (Legion of Honour or Saint-Louis); sky background

Amd-Bretagne-Malo, last Duc de Duras (1771-1838), was premier gentilhomme de la chambre under King Louis XVI, and from 1795 onwards premier gentilhomme du Roi under Louis XVIII who styled him a Knight of the Order of the Holy Ghost in 1820. He was a close friend of Madame de Mirbel. The catalogue of the sale of her estate in 1849 (Notice des tableaux, Miniatures [...]) mentioned as lot 2 'M. le Duc de Duras miniature prcieusement finie' which is probably the present portrait.