CÉCILE VILLENEUVE, signed, dated on the reverse 1865 with address Paris

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CÉCILE VILLENEUVE, signed, dated on the reverse 1865 with address Paris

The Marquise d'Harcourt, her centre-parted wavy hair adorned with a pink rose and a long black lace veil falling over her shoulders, wearing a blue and white striped silk dress edged with white lace; column and rust-red curtain in the background; oval -- 100 mm high, fine gilt-bronze easel frame with ribbon-tied surmount by Alphonse Giroux, Paris.

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The reverse of the miniature is inscribed by Cécile Villeneuve's hand: "Jeanne Paule de St Aulaire Marquise d'Harcourt Paris 1865".

Jeanne Paule Beaupoil de Saint-Aulaire (2 September 1817 - 17 December 1893) was married on 5 August 1841 to George Douglas Trevor Bernard d'Harcourt (1808-1883), Pair de France in 1842 and successively French ambassador in Vienna and London. They had seven children. The Marquise was a talented writer, and among her best-known works was a Vie de Jeanne d'Arc (1846).