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Pair of presumed portraits of the Duchess and the Duke of Bourbon.
Oil on canvas in an oval shape.
Original carved and gilded wooden frames from the Louis XIV period.
XVIIth century.
France.
Dimensions with frame.
Louis III of Bourbon-Condé (1668 – 1710), Duke of Bourbon, Duke of Montmorency (1668-1689) then Duke of Enghien (1689-1709), then 6th Prince of Condé, Count of Sancerre (1709-1710), Count of Charolais (1709) and Lord of Chantilly, is a prince of the French blood. The prince wears the white sash of command on his breastplate. During the entire XVIIth century, the white scarf is the official mark of royal power in France. It constitutes the distinctive badge of the Bourbon kings, the one they display on their official portraits.
Louise-Françoise de Bourbon (1673 – 1743) known as Mademoiselle de Nantes, Duchess of Bourbon then Princess of Condé, is a French princess, legitimized daughter of King Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan.
