FRENCH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1775/1780

The two daughters of Madame de Genlis; one, full face in lace-bordered blue silk dress with blue and white striped shirt, straw hat with pink roses and foliage in her powdered curling hair, pink and red roses gathered in the folds of her skirt and a wicker basket filled with summer flowers hanging over her left arm and balanced on a stone bank, rose bush and sky background; and the other daughter, facing right in low-cut grey silk dress with blue bodice and grey and white striped skirt, blue sash and bandeau in her curling powdered hair; leaning against a stone plinth with column, holding a dove in her hands, foliate background

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FRENCH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1775/1780
The two daughters of Madame de Genlis; one, full face in lace-bordered blue silk dress with blue and white striped shirt, straw hat with pink roses and foliage in her powdered curling hair, pink and red roses gathered in the folds of her skirt and a wicker basket filled with summer flowers hanging over her left arm and balanced on a stone bank, rose bush and sky background; and the other daughter, facing right in low-cut grey silk dress with blue bodice and grey and white striped skirt, blue sash and bandeau in her curling powdered hair; leaning against a stone plinth with column, holding a dove in her hands, foliate background
rectangular, 36 x 2.13/16 in. (81 x 71 mm.), silver-gilt mounts set at the inside of Madame de Genlis' red-leather-bound autograph inscribed notebook called Méditation, the cover blind-stamped with the initials of her daughter's names and applied with gold catches

來源

According to an old handwritten notice inside the booklet:
Given to Madame de Genlis by the Duc d'Orléans ('Philippe-Egalité').
Henriette de Sercey, Baronne de Finguerlin, niece of Madame de Genlis. Her daughter Mathilde de Finguerlin.
Bequeathed by Mathilde de Finguerlin to her great-nephew Henry Standish.

拍品專文

Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de Saint-Aubin, Comtesse de Genlis (1746-1830) was married at the age of 16 to the comte de Genlis. In 1770, she was made lady-in-waiting to the Duchesse de Chartres to whose husband, the future Duke of Orléans 'Philippe-Égalité' she became mistress. A prolific poet, she wrote four volumes of short plays entitled Théâtre d'éducation, in 1779, for her charges, the princely children, and nearly a hundred volumes of historical romances and 'improving' works. Among her last publications are her Mémoires of 1825.
The elder of the two daughters of Madame de Genlis was short-lived Caroline Jeanne (1765-1786) who married, in 1778, the rich Flemish nobleman Charles-Guislain-Paul-Armand, Marquis de La Woestine, a capitaine des gardes. She became dame pour accompagner of the Duchess d'Orléans. The Marquis and the Marquise de La Woestine had three children: Eglantine, Charles-Alexis and Léocadie
The second daughter of Madame de Genlis was Pulchérie-Nicole, called 'Péky'. Péky (1766-1847) married in 1784 to Cyrus, Vicomte de Valence, later a celebrated General. The two surviving children of Comte and Comtesse de Valence were Félicie, later Comtesse de Vischer de Celles, and Rose, later Comtesse Gérard.