D'Orsay fecit 25 Decr 1842 [signed in plate.]
London, Published by J. Mitchell, Royal Library, 33, Old Bond St. C. Graf, Lith. to Her Majesty.
Lithograph on india paper, india 215 x 160mm. 8½ x 6¼".
Portrait of a young member of the Ducal House of Noailles, a French peerage created in 1663 for Anne of Noailles, count of Ayen. From a series of portraits by Count Alfred Guillaume Gabriel d'Orsay (1801 - 1852), Paris-born artist and gentleman of fashion. His profile sketches of his contemporaries, to the number of 125, include among them nearly all the literary, artistic, and fashionable celebrities of that time.
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