PIGEONS

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Attributed to Louise Elisabeth called Madame de Montpensier (1709-1742)
Pigeons
Gouache, each within a giltwood frame, the reverse stencilled in ink C.M. and PEINT PAR MLLE DE MENTPENSIER ELLE MÊME RESTAURÉ EN 1823 and with stencilled Château d'Eu cypher LP beneath a crown and with inventory numbers inscribed twice to each s 57 and s 58
17 in. (43 cm.) high, 20½ in. (52 cm.) wide, overall (2)

Lot Essay

In the mid-18th Century the Château d'Eu was owned by the Comte d'Eu, a grandson of Louis XIV and Mme de Montespan and passed in the late 18th Century to the Orléans branch of th Bourbon family in whose possession it remained (except for a Napoleonic intermission). Louis Philippe, 1830-1848, restored and refurnished the castle and employed this stencil.

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