LOUIS SENÉ, signed, circa 1785

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LOUIS SENÉ, signed, circa 1785

The Marquise de Beauffort née Comtesse de Mérode-Westerloo, holding an open book inscribed L'AMOUR Filial, wearing a yellow straw-hat adorned with a sky-blue knotted ribbon, white ostrich feathers and a long gauze veil with embroidered border, her grey-powdered high-piled hair falling in curls onto her neck, her aubergine-coloured dress and open broad gauze collar bordered with frill -- 69 mm diam., plain gold mount.

Provenance

Comtesse Adrien de Lévis-Mirepoix, Paris (in 1912).

Literature

Paul-André Lemoisne, "Le portrait miniature en France", in L'exposition de la miniature à Bruxelles en 1912, Brussels and Paris, 1913, p. 72, illustr. pl. XXXI, nr 148; L. de Mauri, L'amatore di miniature su avorio, Milan, 1918, illustr. p. 452; Léo R. Schidlof, La miniature en Europe, Graz, 1964, II, pp. 764, 765 (described as "très bonne et typique").

Exhibited

Exposition de la miniature, Brussels, Hôtel Goffinet, March-July 1912, nr 1103.

Lot Essay

Honorine-Léopoldine-Ghislaine Comtesse de Mérode-Westerloo was born in the Castle of Everberg (Belgium) on 18 July 1761. She was married in Brussels on 7 February 1781 to Charles-Louis-Joseph-Marie Marquis de Beauffort and died on 25 November 1829.

We are indebted to Prince Maximilien de Mérode for his help in the cataloguing of this portrait.

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