Antique French Miniature Portrait in Fine Dore Bronze Frame - Mme de Montesson cross we suspect this beautiful old

we suspect this beautiful old mourning brooch might well be a memorial of such a loss

I can't wait to use it

Shown front and back

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Very slight discoloration

Antique French Miniature Portrait in Fine Dore Bronze Frame - Mme de Montesson cross we suspect this beautiful oldMme. de Montesson, the lovely young woman subject of our early to mid 1800s hand painted miniature portrait offered here, was the mistress of Duc d'Orleans, Louis Philippe d'Orleans. The painting is styled after, I believe, a c. 1760 painting of her by Guillaume VOIRIOT, which was called "Femme a' sa Toilette". I've included a couple of views of Mme de Montesson, the combination of which may have been the source. She wears the same outfit and holds a