Louise Amour Marie de Bouillé, later Marchioness of Rambures

Ca. 1871.
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Louise Amour Marie de Bouillé, the wife of the French ambassador in Madrid, is registered as a copyist at the Museo del Prado from November 1871 onwards. It must have been around then that she was portrayed by Federico de Madrazo in this delicate work, half-way between a life sketch and a small portrait, where the aristocrat is shown painting. Of Caribbean Creole descent, Louise was a multifaceted and socially very active woman with an interest in both painting and photography, but she never took up these activities professionally.

G. Navarro, Carlos, Invitadas. Fragmentos sobre mujeres, ideología y artes plásticas en España (1833-1931), Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, 2020, p.294 nº 70

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Inventory number: P004459
Author: Madrazo y Kuntz, Federico de
Title: Louise Amour Marie de Bouillé, later Marchioness of Rambures
Date: Ca. 1871
Dimension: Height: 38.5 cm; Width: 31 cm
Provenance: Acquisition, 1958; Museo de Arte Moderno; Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, 1968-1971

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Díez, J.L. (dir.), Pintura del Siglo XIX en el Museo del Prado. Catálogo general, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2015, pp. 370.

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