Details
FRENCH SCHOOL, circa 1850/1860
A young lady called Mademoiselle de Bourbon bust-length nearly full-face, her curly brown hair dressed "à la Fontange" and entwined with strands of pearls, wearing a gold-embroidered blue velvet dress with white lace underslip and a red cloak; on vellum, oval -- 98 mm high, gilt-bronze frame, the paper reverse inscribed "Mademoiselle de Bourbon".
A young lady called Mademoiselle de Bourbon bust-length nearly full-face, her curly brown hair dressed "à la Fontange" and entwined with strands of pearls, wearing a gold-embroidered blue velvet dress with white lace underslip and a red cloak; on vellum, oval -- 98 mm high, gilt-bronze frame, the paper reverse inscribed "Mademoiselle de Bourbon".
Provenance
Grand Duchess Olga Nicholaievna of Russia (1822-1892), later Queen of Württemberg (her inv. nr 16); Grand Duchess Vera Constantinovna of Russia (1852-1912), later Duchess of Württemberg, niece of the latter (her inv. nr 743); thence by family descent to the present owner.