Lot Essay
Francoise d'Aubigné, Madame de Maintenon (1635-1719) secretly married Louis XIV of France in 1683 or 1697
Details
French School, 18th Century
Madame de Maintenon, seated in gold-embroidered blue dress with white underslip, orange stole over her arm, holding a spaniel in her lap and leaning against a red cushion, red curtain and pillar background, landscape beyond
on vellum, unframed
oval, 3½in. (88mm.) high
See Front Cover Illustration
Madame de Maintenon, seated in gold-embroidered blue dress with white underslip, orange stole over her arm, holding a spaniel in her lap and leaning against a red cushion, red curtain and pillar background, landscape beyond
on vellum, unframed
oval, 3½in. (88mm.) high
See Front Cover Illustration