Antique French Miniature Portrait in Fine Dore Bronze Frame - Mme de Montesson cross we do not know who

we do not know who this lovely woman is

another pair and a larger set of four and they all look lovely displayed together

But it's been fitted to use as a fabulous gambling chest - compartmented lift-out upper tray holds many decks of playing cards

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Shown front and back

Antique French Miniature Portrait in Fine Dore Bronze Frame - Mme de Montesson cross we do not know whoMme. 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