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Mdm Sanlot - 1776 Oil on Canvas Museum in Marly le Roi, Louveciennes Marie-Rose Savalette de Lange, wife of Etienne Rene Agnan Sanlot, fermier general (tax collector). They lived in Paris and chateau du Plessis near Blois. vlb also painted her father , M. de Savalette, and brother M. de Lange.
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Mme la Comtesse de Tournon - 1779 Engraving of an unlocated painting Rose Marie Helene de Tournon, younger cousin of prince de Soubise. In 1778 she was widowed when her first husband, Comte Adolphe du Barry (see painting list for 1773), was killed in a duel. She then married a cousin who shared her maiden name, M de Tournon, marquis de Claveyron. She died in 1785. This image can be found on Art Page 71
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The Queen's Apotheosis - 1805-14 oil on canvas Also known as "The Dream." "...I had another portrait of the Queen painted during Bonaparte's reign. This one showed Marie-Antoinette ascending to heaven; on the left, seated on two clouds were Louis XVIII [ meaning Louis XVI] and two angels, an allusion to the two children he had lost." - Chap. XXXIV
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