From the description of the Breakfast Room in the 1784 edition of Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole: "Madame la marquise de Deffand and the duchesse de Choiseul giving her a doll, which the former, who was blind, holds out her hand to receive; alluding to her calling the ducess Grand Mamam ...by M. Carmontel, a gentleman belonging to the Duke of Orleans .. a washed drawing." See p. 26.
Description:
Title from ms. note in ink below image., After the Carmontelle watercolor that hung in the Breakfast room at Strawberry Hill and sold at the Strawberry Hill sale eleventh day, lot 111., and Date based on the correspondence between Walpole and Du Deffand. See Yale edition of the correspondence, vol. 4.
Subject (Name):
Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780, and Choiseul, Louise Honorine Crozat, duchesse de, 1734-1801,
A group of portrait drawings depicting some of the correspondents included in a French edition of Madame du Deffand's letters. The drawings are inserted throughout the three volumes of the printed text, supplementing the engraved portraits and other plates that were issued with the work
Description:
Collection title devised by cataloger., Many of the drawings have the sitter's name written below, and most are signed "ABaudet Bauderval" (with the initial letters forming a monogram). The artist is tentaitvely identified as A. Baudet-Bauderval, a lithographer who was active in France in the mid-19th century; see name authority record in the online catalogue of the Bibliothèque nationale de France., Bound in a copy of: Du Deffand, M. Correspondance complète de Mme. du Deffand avec la duchesse de Choiseul ... Paris : M. Lévy frères, 1866., and Extra-illustrated: plates, portraits, drawings.
Subject (Name):
Voltaire, 1694-1778,, Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797,, Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780,, Lévis-Mirepoix, Anne-Marguerite-Gabrielle de Beauvau-Craon, duchesse de, 1707-1791,, Luxembourg, Madeleine-Angélique de Neufville-Villeroy, duchesse de, 1707-1787,, Guerchy, Claude-Louis-François Régnier, comte de, 1715-1767,, Gleichen, Charles Henri, baron de, 1733-1807,, Dufort de Duras, Henriette Julie de, comtesse d'Egmont, 1696-1779,, Noailles, Marie-Anne-Françoise de, comtesse de la Marck, 1719-1793,, Choiseul, Etienne-François, duc de, 1719-1785,, Barthélemy, J.-J. 1716-1795, (Jean-Jacques),, Choiseul, Louise Honorine Crozat, duchesse de, 1734-1801,, Vallière, Anne Julie Françoise de Crussol, duchesse de, 1713-1797,, Boufflers, Amélie de, 1751-1794,, Bauffremont, Charles-Roger de, 1713-1795,, Aiguillon, Louise Félicité de Brehan-Plélo, duchesse de, 1726-1796,, Sénac de Meilhan, Gabriel, 1736-1803,, Brionne, Louise de Rohan, comtesse de, 1734-1815,, Mirepoix, Gaston Charles Pierre de Lévis, duc de, 1699-1757,, Mazarin, Louise-Jeanne de Durfort de Duras, duchesse de, 1735-1781,, Conzié, Louis-François-Marc-Hilaire de, 1732-1804,, Maine, Anne Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon, duchesse du, 1676-1753,, and Grammont, Béatrix de Choiseul-Stainville, duchesse de, 1730-1794,
A group of portrait drawings depicting some of the correspondents included in a French collection of Madame du Deffand's letters. The drawings are inserted throughout both volumes of the printed text, supplementing the engraved portraits and other plates that were either issued with the work or added later
Description:
Collection title devised by cataloger., All but one of the drawings have the sitter's name added in pencil below, and all but two are signed "ABaudet Bauderval" (with the initial letters forming a monogram). The artist is tentaitvely identified as A. Baudet-Bauderval, a lithographer who was active in France in the mid-19th century; see person record in the online catalogue of the Bibliothèque nationale de France., Bound in a copy of: Du Deffand, M. Correspondance complète de la marquise du Deffand avec ses amis le président Hénault-Montesquieu-d'Alembert-Voltaire-Horace Walpole ... Paris : H. Plon, 1865., and Extra-illustrated with plates, portraits, drawings.
Subject (Name):
Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780, d'Averne, Sophie de Brégis, comtesse, active 1721-1723,, Pont-de-Veyle, 1697-1774,, Choiseul, Louise Honorine Crozat, duchesse de, 1734-1801,, Saint-Lambert, Jean-François de, 1716-1803,, Luynes, Marie Brûlart de La Borde, duchesse de, 1684?-1763,, Chaulnes, Anne Josèphe Bonnier de La Mosson, duchesse de, 1718-1787,, Vallière, Anne Julie Françoise de Crussol, duchesse de, 1713-1797,, Luxembourg, Madeleine-Angélique de Neufville-Villeroy, duchesse de, 1707-1787,, and Rochefort, Marie Thérèse de Larlan de Kercadio, comtesse de, 1716-1782,
