Early 18th.Century French School Portrait of French Poet Antoinette Du Liger De La Garde Deshoulières (1638-1694) seated at a dressing table with mirror and book holding a small Spaniel.
Gouache on vellum in superb carved giltwood frame. Circa.1700. 11.5 by 14.5 cms image. 22.5 by 25.5 cms overall.
Madame Antoinette Deshoulières was a celebrated feature at the court of Louis XIV and of 17th.Century French literary society. Known for her beauty and talent. She won the friendship and admiration of the most eminent literary men of the age, some of her more zealous flatterers even going so far as to style her the tenth muse and the French Calliope. Voltaire pronounced her to be the greatest of French poets.
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