Pair of presumed portraits of the Duchess and the Duke of Bourbon.
Oil on canvas in an oval shape.
Original carved and gilded wooden frames from the Louis XIV period.
17th century.
France.

Dimensions with frame.

Louis III of Bourbon-Condé (1668 – 1710), Duke of Bourbon, Duke of Montmorency (1668-1689) then Duke of Enghien (1689-1709), then 6th Prince of Condé, Count of Sancerre (1709-1710), Count of Charolais (1709) and Lord of Chantilly, is a prince of the French blood. The prince wears on his breastplate the white sash of command. Throughout the XNUMXth century, the white sash was the official mark of royal power in France. It constitutes the distinctive insignia of the Bourbon kings, the one they wear on their official portraits.

Louise-Françoise de Bourbon (1673 – 1743) known as Mademoiselle de Nantes, Duchess of Bourbon then Princess of Condé, is a French princess, legitimized daughter of King Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan.