The Duke of Nemours, facing right in black uniform of a lieutenant général with gold embroidered oak leaf collar, gold epaulettes, black stock, wearing the red sash and the breast star of the Royal French Order of the Legion of Honour and the commander cross of the Royal Belgian Order of Leopold, moustache and goatee

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MARIE-PAULINE LAURENT (1805-1860)
The Duke of Nemours, facing right in black uniform of a lieutenant général with gold embroidered oak leaf collar, gold epaulettes, black stock, wearing the red sash and the breast star of the Royal French Order of the Legion of Honour and the commander cross of the Royal Belgian Order of Leopold, moustache and goatee
signed with initials 'PL' (lower right)
on porcelain
oval, 1.13/16 in. (46 mm.) high, cast gilt-brass easel frame, the reverse engraved with the sitter's name

Provenance

by family descent from the sitter to the previous owner:
The sitter's second son, Ferdinand of Orléans, Duke of Alençon (1844-1910).
The son of the latter, Philippe-Emmanuel of Orléans, Duke of Vendôme (1872-1931).
The son of the latter, Charles Philippe of Orléans, Duke of Nemours (1905-1970); (+) his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 10-11 March 1971, lot 265.

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Lot Essay

Louis-Charles of Orléans (1814-1896), Duke of Nemours, second son of King Louis Louis-Philippe of the French. The Belgian Congress of 1831 elected the Duke of Nemours King of the Belgians but his father Louis-Philippe refused as he feared to indispose his European neighbours. A brilliant man of war, Nemours dinstinguished himself in the siege of Antwerp, in the war against Algeria and in the fight against Abd-el-Kader. He was married in 1840 to Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. In 1848, he followed his family into the English exile but returned to France in 1871.
The present portrait is after the full-length oil painting by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, commissioned by King Louis-Philippe in 1843 for the Historical Museum of Versailles, now in Versailles Castle.

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