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HENRI-JOSEPH HESSE (1781-1849)

Marie-Constance de Lamoignon, Duchesse de La Force, facing right in maroon dress with collar and banded bodice, red cashmere stole, elaborate lace bonnet with lace chin strap; her hands joined and holding a green bound book, seated in a green upholstered wooden chair

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HENRI-JOSEPH HESSE (1781-1849)
Marie-Constance de Lamoignon, Duchesse de La Force, facing right in maroon dress with collar and banded bodice, red cashmere stole, elaborate lace bonnet with lace chin strap; her hands joined and holding a green bound book, seated in a green upholstered wooden chair
signed 'Hesse' (lower right)
watercolour on card
oval, 7¾ in. (197 mm.) high, rectangular black wood frame
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Marie-Constance de Lamoignon (1774-1823) was married in 1788 to François-Philibert-Bertrand-Nompar de Caumont, 8th Duc de La Force, Peer of France in 1839 (1772-1854). She was the mother of the Marquise de La Grange (see previous lot) and of the 10th Duc de La Force.

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