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Description: | Circular portrait of a stout lady with her hair set in small brown curls. She wears a blue grey Empire dress with low square neckline edged in lace. Signed and dated in gold at right: Charpentier jeune, 1808. The portrait is set within a gilt metal circle, itself within a square composition frame. The lady was a former washerwoman who became a duchess. She was nicknamed 'Madame Sans-Gene' because she never lost the manners of her youth. Size: Diameter: 6.5 cm. | License: | http://www.thebowesmuseum.org.uk/terms/ | Rights holder: | The Bowes Museum | Subjects: | 1696 | Source: | Bowes-OAI | Identifier: | http://www.thebowesmuseum.org.uk/collect... | Go to resource |
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