Lot n° 332
Estimation :
6000 - 8000
EUR
Result with fees
Result
: 11 050EUR
17th CENTURY FRENCH SCHOOL. - Lot 332
17th CENTURY FRENCH SCHOOL.
Portrait of the Duchesse de La Vallière, Louise-Françoise de La
Baume Le Blanc, (1644-1710), first official mistress of King Louis XIV.
Oil on panel, preserved in an antique carved and gilded wood frame. Bears a label on the back with the following handwritten inscription: "Louise Françoise de La
Baume Le Blanc, duchesse de La Vallière had a son by Louis XIV, named duc de Vermandois. In 1675, she became a Carmelite nun, and in 1710, she died under the name of Louise de la miséricorde.
On learning of her son's death, she replied: ''I must mourn the birth of this son even more than his death.
Good condition, frame worn and missing.
Sight: H.: 35 cm - W.: 26 cm.
Frame: H.: 45.5 cm - W.: 37 cm.
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