Madame la Marquise du Deffand [art original].

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Title: Madame la Marquise du Deffand [art original].
Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Contributor: Carmontelle, 1717-1806, associated name.
Published / Created: [not after 1824]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Portrait of Madame du Deffand, half length, in profile to the left, eyes closed, head covered with a bonnet or hooded garment
Description: Title written in ink below image.
Unsigned; attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record.
Probably after a wash drawing by Carmontelle that formerly hung in the blue breakfast room at Strawberry Hill.
Date based on date of William Bawtree's death.
Mounted on page 55 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole's A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784). See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Provenance: Sotheby's 14 July 1924 (Miscellaneous Sale), lot 183 to Spencer. Formerly owned by Kirgate's friend William Bawtree (1744-1824) engraver. Purchased from Spencer, June 1951, £100; ex dono Annie Burr Lewis.
Extent: 1 drawing : oval image 7.1 x 6 cm, on sheet 9.7 x 8 cm
Language: French

Genre: Portrait drawings
Wash drawings British 19th century
Material: gray wash ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subjects: Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
British > 19th century
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: G.P. Harding, Madame la Marquise du Deffand. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.