Lot no. 519
Félix Henri GIACOMOTTI (1828-1909)
Presumed portrait of Céleste Mogador (1824-1909), Countess of Moreton de Chabrillan.
Oil on canvas, signed and dated 1867 lower right
H. 99 cm - L. 81 cm HVS
Repainting, restorations.
Exhibition:
Probably Paris, Salon of 1867, N°647 (Portrait of the Countess of M. C.).
This would have been the actress and demi-mondaine Céleste Vénard, known as Mogador, who married Lionel Guigues de Moreton de Chabrillan (1818-1858), French consular agent in Melbourne, Australia, on 8 January 1854 in Wesminster (England).
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