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MATHILDE BONAPARTE (1820 - 1904) Oriental woman

Lotto 69
8001 000
signed with initial ‘M under the crown’ (upper right) pastel, pencil, whitewash on paper 36.5 x 25.5 cm Mathilde Létizia Wilhelmine Bonaparte, better known as Princess Mathilde, is a representative of the House of Bonaparte: daughter of Jérôme Bonaparte and Catharina of Württemberg, cousin of Napoleon III (she was even engaged to the future Napoleon III). She was finally married to Count Anatole Demidoff, Prince of San Donato. A pupil of the painter Giraud, Mathilde Bonaparte exhibited at the Salon from 1859 to 1867.


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