Charles-Alexis Brûlart, comte de Genlis

Carmontelle specialised in elegant portraits of figures in the household of his employer, the duc d’Orléans, among them this drawing of the seated comte de Genlis. Genlis’s wife was lady-in-waiting to the duke’s son, Philippe, and was a respected author: George owned many of her books. By 1828, this drawing would have evoked nostalgia for pre-Revolutionary France, with which George was fascinated.

Purchased in 1828