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Paul César Helleu
La Duchesse de Marlborough, Consuelo Vanderbilt

c. 1910

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Paul César Helleu. La Duchesse de Marlborough, Consuelo Vanderbilt. c. 1901. Drypoint. 21 1/2 x 13 3/4 (sheet 24 x 15). A rich impression printed on white wove paper with full margins. . Provenance: Richard Green, London; This portrait is the artist's masterwork. Signed in pencil, lower right. Housed in a silk mat with a gold liner, in a stunning 31 1/2 x 22 1/2-inch gold leaf frame. In November 1896, Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan married Charles, 9th Duke of Marlborough (1871–1934), in 1895. She became the mistress of Blenheim Palace, which was so large, she never even knew the number of rooms. In her autobiography, The Glitter and the Gold, she chronicles life as a duchess, entertaining royalty and visiting Czarist Russia before the Revolution. She also discusses her divorce and subsequent marriage to Jacques Balsan, which caused sensational headlines in the 1920s. Born into great wealth and power, Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan stood out among the "Dollar Princesses", the wealthy American women who wed royalty in the late l890s and early 20th Century.
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