Here, the Duchess of Orléans wears a silk and muslin deshabille, with her head covered by a diaphanous fichu. She is reclining on a red velvet cushion and is leaning her head on her left hand. She has a melancholy air, which corresponds well to the era's style of portraiture and for the context of that time, as the Duchess was then separated from her children and her husband, who were in exile in Villers-Cotterêts.
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