Jean Marc NATTIER (workshop of), 18th century FRENCH school: - Lot 47

Jean Marc NATTIER (workshop of), 18th century FRENCH school: Portrait of Louise Henriette de Bourbon-Conti as Hébé. Oil on canvas. Beautiful carved wood frame in the style of the agence des bâtiments du roi. H_147.5 cm W_116 cm. Old restorations. Provenance: Collection of Madame Louis Burat. Sale Paris, galerie Charpentier, June 17-18, 1937, reproduced under n°5. Our painting reproduces Nattier's composition dated 1744 (canvas, 131 x 105 cm), now in the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm. Quoted in Nolhac, Nattier, 1910 p. 98. After citing the Stockholm painting, the author mentions: "autres paintings at M. Otto Kahn's and Mme Burat's (reduced composition)". Louise Henriette de Bourbon (June 20, 1726 - February 9, 1759) - Mademoiselle de Conti at birth, Duchess of Orléans at her death - married Louis-Philippe d'Orléans, also known as le Gros, then Duc de Chartres, on December 17, 1743. On his father's death in 1752, Louis-Philippe became the fourth Duke of Orléans. Although chosen as his wife for his religious upbringing, Louise Henriette's troubled life was marked by ongoing scandal due to her many lovers. Assuming the title Madame la Princesse, she became the grandmother of the French king, Louis-Philippe. She died at the age of 33 at the Palais-Royal in Paris on February 9, 1759. Expert : Cabinet Turquin