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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A FRENCH WHITE MARBLE BUST OF THE COMTESSE DE SABRAN, after Jean-Antoine Houdon, looking to her right, her hair tied with a ribbon and with drapery across her shoulders, on a circular socle, second half 19th Century

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A FRENCH WHITE MARBLE BUST OF THE COMTESSE DE SABRAN, after Jean-Antoine Houdon, looking to her right, her hair tied with a ribbon and with drapery across her shoulders, on a circular socle, second half 19th Century
25¼in. (64cm.) high

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Francois-Eléonore de Manville (1749-1827) became the Comtesse de Sabran at an early age when she married the Comte de Sabran, who was some fifty years her senior. An accomplished composer of poetry, novel writer and an excellent musician she was very much a Lady of the old Regime. Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828) may have been commissioned by Prince Henry of Prussia, with whom the Countess took shelter during the Revolution, for the original portrait which was completed circa 1785. It is now in the Thuringian Museum, Eisenach, Germany.