2-720-435 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Anne Marie Louise d'Orleans, Duchesse de Montpensier, 17th century, (1907). Portrait of French heiress 'La Grande Mademoiselle' (1627-1693), Duchess of Montpensier. On the death of her father Gaston, Duke of Orléans, in 1660, Anne Marie Louise inherited his vast wealth and estates. She never married and on her death her fortune was left to her cousin Philippe I, Duke of Orléans. After a portrait of the 17th century. From "Exposition de Portraits, peints et dessinés", (Exhibition of painted and drawn portraits), catalogue of the Bibliothèque Nationale, April-June 1907. [Librairie Centrale Des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1907]