Lot 40
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FRENCH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1755
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FRENCH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1755

Comte de Clermont (1709-1771) beside his plumed helmet, facing right in fur-bordered red velvet coat with gold embroidered buttonholes, gold-bordered silver breast plate, frilled cravat and black ribbon tied around neck, powdered wig en queue, wearing the blue moiré sash and breast star of the Royal French Order of the Holy Ghost; landscape background

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FRENCH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1755
Comte de Clermont (1709-1771) beside his plumed helmet, facing right in fur-bordered red velvet coat with gold embroidered buttonholes, gold-bordered silver breast plate, frilled cravat and black ribbon tied around neck, powdered wig en queue, wearing the blue moiré sash and breast star of the Royal French Order of the Holy Ghost; landscape background
on vellum
2 3/16 in. (56 mm.) diam., silver-gilt mount with outer pierced gilt-metal surround of leaves and berries with crowning surmount
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Louis de Bourbon, Comte de Clermont was the Abbot of St-Germain, Generalissime of the Royal French Armies and a member of the Académie Française in 1754. He was one of the nine children of Louis III de Bourbon, Prince de Condé and his wife 'Mademoiselle de Nantes' (a legitimized daughter of King Louis XIV). He married Mademoiselle Leduc, called 'Marquise de Tourvoie' and had two children.

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