Two miniatures of Constance de Caumont La Force, Marquise de La Grange, facing right in brown dress with wide lace-bordered white collar and smaller pink collar, gold-embroidered red scarf under the white collar and fastened at the waist by an embroidered belt with gold buckle, tortoiseshell comb in her curling dark hair; cloud and sky background; and facing left in white dress with lace collar and voluminous sleeve, her dark hair upswept; carrying a green portfolio under her right arm and holding a quill in her right hand; mountainous and sky background

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HENRI-JOSEPH HESSE (1781-1849)
Two miniatures of Constance de Caumont La Force, Marquise de La Grange, facing right in brown dress with wide lace-bordered white collar and smaller pink collar, gold-embroidered red scarf under the white collar and fastened at the waist by an embroidered belt with gold buckle, tortoiseshell comb in her curling dark hair; cloud and sky background; and facing left in white dress with lace collar and voluminous sleeve, her dark hair upswept; carrying a green portfolio under her right arm and holding a quill in her right hand; mountainous and sky background
signed and dated 'Hesse 1827 en deux séances.' (mid-right) and the second 'hesse' (lower left)
watercolour on card
ovals, 51/8 in. (130 mm.) and 5¼ in. (133 mm.) high, respectively, gilt-bronze mounts stamped with honeysuckle motifs with easel stands (2)

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拍品专文

Constance-Madeleine-Louise de Caumont La Force (d. 1869), daughter of the 8th Duc de La Force and his wife Constance de Lamoignon (see following lot), married firstly the Comte de Clermont-Lodève and secondly, in 1827, the Marquis de La Grange et de Fourilles. A close friend of Alphonse de Lamartine, she was also a writer. She died without descent.