Louise Adelaide d'Orleans Abbesse de Chelles. Adélaide en Dieu fixant son esperance Ne fut pour l'arreter qu'un impuissant lien [...]
Gobert pinx P. Drever scul. [c.1720] Engraving, fine, platemark 240 x 175mm (9½ x 7") very large margins. Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans (1698-1743), daughter of Philippe II Duke of Orléans and Françoise Marie de Bourbon, who became a nun in 1717 and was named Abbess of Chelles in 1720. Engraving by Pierre Drevet after Pierre Gobert (1662-1744), one of the foremost portrait painters of his day, who painted the young Louis XV on several occasions.
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