ANTHELME FRANÇOIS LAGRENEE (FRENCH, 1774-1832)

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THE PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN NOBLE FAMILY

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ANTHELME FRANÇOIS LAGRENEE (FRENCH, 1774-1832)
Adélaïde du Trochet, in white dress with embroidered edge, white and green short puffed sleeves, green belt, her dark upswept hair dressed in curls and set with a gold tiara, pearl earring
signed 'Lagrénée' (mid-right)
on ivory
oval, 2 9/16 in. (65 mm.) high, stamped gilt-metal mount in rectangular wood frame

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Lot Essay

Adélaïde du Trochet was the second wife of General Pierre-François Cuillier-Perron (1753/5-1834), a French military adventurer in India. One of his four daughters with Adélaïde du Trochet married into the de La Rochefoucauld family.

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