LIST OF PHOTOGRAVURE ILLUSTRATIONS.
Reading edition
Madame, Élisabeth-Charlotte, Princess Palatine, Duchesse
d’Orléans Frontispiece
By Rigaud (Hyacinthe); in the Brunswick gallery. This is the
picture Madame mentions in her letters; this reproduction is from
the copy which she promised to send to her sister Louise, Countess
Palatine; the original portrait is at Versailles.
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I. Saint-Cloud, Château and Park of 42
From a photograph by Neurdin, Paris.
II. Fontainebleau. Louis XIV. and Escort, hunting 64
By Van der Meulen (Adam Franz); painted by order of the king;
in the Louvre.
III. Marie-Anne-Victoire de Bavière, Dauphine, Wife of
Monseigneur, with her Sons 96
The Duc de Bourgogne carries a lance; the Duc d’Anjou (Philippe
V.) holds a dog; the Duc de Berry is on his mother’s lap; by Mignard
(Pierre); in the Louvre.
IV. Louise de Bourbon, “Mme. la Duchesse” 124
By Largillière (Nicolas de); Versailles.
V. Marie-Thérèse, Infanta of Spain, Wife of Louis XIV. 154
By Velasquez (Diego Rodriguez da Silva y); in the Prado gallery,
Madrid.
V. René Descartes 168
By Franz Halz; in the Louvre.
VI. Marie Adélaïde de Savoie, Duchesse de Bourgogne 182
Painter’s name not obtained; probably Santerre; in the Royal
palace at Turin; photographed by permission from the original for
this edition.
VII. Madame de Maintenon 216
Head of the portrait painted for Saint-Cyr by Mignard; now in
the Louvre.
X. Louis XIV. at Marly 300
By Geuslain (Charles); Versailles.