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Françoise-Marguerite de Sévigné, comtesse de Grignan
(1646–1705), was a French aristocrat. She is remembered for the letters that her mother,
Madame de Sévigné
, wrote to her over the course of thirty years. Françoise-Marguerite was a renowned beauty with a sharp wit, but was considered unbearably vain by
Roger de Rabutin, comte de Bussy
, another of her mother's correspondents. This oil-on-canvas portrait of the comtesse de Grignan was painted by
Alexander Roslin
in 1753, and is
anachronistic
in depicting her in mid-18th-century clothing.
Painting credit:
Alexander Roslin
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