3-035-603 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Portrait of the Marquise de Miramon, née Thérèse Feuillant, 1866. Additional Info: Costumed in the latest style and surrounded by fashionable decorative objects, the Marquise de Miramon wears a rose-coloured, ruffled peignoir, or dressing gown. Around her neck are a black lace scarf and a silver cross. Reflecting the new European fascination with Japanese art, behind her is a Japanese screen depicting cranes on a gold ground, and on the mantelpiece are several pieces of Japanese ceramics. The needlework on the Louis XVI stool indicates that the subject is a noble woman of leisure, and the eighteenth-century terracotta bust suggests her husband's aristocratic heritage. Thérèse-Stephanie-Sophie Feuillant (1836 - 1912) was from a wealthy bourgeois family. She inherited a fortune from her father and in 1860 she married Réné de Cassagne de Beaufort, Marquis de Miramon. She poses in the Château de Paulhac, Auvergne, her husband's family seat.