Collection of the Rochechouart de Mortemart Family
After Paul Delaroche
Portrait of François de Rochechouart, Duke of Mortemart, as a child (1832-1893)
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Collection of the Rochechouart de Mortemart Family
After Paul Delaroche
Portrait of François de Rochechouart, Duke of Mortemart, as a child (1832-1893)
Oil on canvas oval
60,2 x 48 cm ; 23¾ by 18⅞ in.
François de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Prince of Tonnay-Charente (1909-1938);
His son, Louis-Victor de Rochechouart, Marquis of Mortemart (1909-1938);
His son, Charles-Louis de Rochechouart, Count of Mortemart (1933-2021);
Thence by descent;
Collection of the Rochechouart de Mortemart Family.
Son of Henri de Rochechouart and Marie-Louise-Agnès Borghèse-Aldobrandini, François de Rochechouart was born on 1 December 1832. Duc de Mortemart, Prince de Tonnay-Charente and a Grandee of Spain, he was also made a Knight of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. He repurchased the family estates at Mortemart and Tonnay-Charente, which had previously been confiscated by Revolutionary decree. He married his cousin, Virginie-Marie-Louise de Sainte-Adegonde, daughter of Comte Edmond-Albert de Sainte-Adegonde and Alice de Rochechouart de Mortemart. François died in Paris on 22 May 1893.
A signed version of this composition was sold by Marc-Arthur Kohn (Paris sale, 3 August 2006, lot 54).