Marechal duc d’Harcourt.  By Rigaud.

Eliz.  Angelique de Montmorenci, Duchesse de Chatillon.  She died in 1695 in her 69th year.  This is a fine picture, but injured and retouched.  The left hand rests upon a lion’s head.

F.  Marie de Bourbon, fille de Madame de Montespan, et femme du Regent.  A stiffish picture; but the countenance is pleasing.

Madame la Duchesse de Nevers, fille de Madame de Thianges, et niece de Madame de Montespan.  A bow is in her right hand, and a dog in her left.  The countenance is beautiful and well painted.  The eyes and mouth in particular have great sweetness of expression.

Duc de Montausier; in a hat and red feather.  By Rigaud.

Madame la Duchesse de Sforce:  fille cadette de Madame de Thianges.  A small whole length, sitting:  with two greyhounds in her lap, and a third at her side.

Le Ministre Colbert.  By Mignard.  A fine picture.[185]

Marie Leezinska, femme de Louis XV.  A cleverly painted head.

Le Cardinal Mazarin.  By P. de Champagne.  Whole length.  A fine portrait—­ which I never contemplate without thinking of the poor unfortunate “man in an iron mask!”

Madame de Motteville.  She died in her 74th year, in 1689.  This is merely the head and shoulders; but in the Vandyke style of execution.

Charles Paris d’Orleans, dernier Duc de Longueville. He was killed in the famous passage of the Rhine, at Tolhuys, in 1672.

Charles I.  By Vandyke.  A beautiful half length portrait.  Perhaps too highly varnished.

Le Marquis de Cinq-Mars.  He was beheaded at the age of twenty-two, in September 1642.  There is also a whole length of him, in a rich, white, flowered dress.  A genuine and interesting picture.

Mary Queen of Scots.  Whole length:  in a white dress.  A copy; or, if an old picture, repainted all over.

Don Carlos, the unfortunate son of Philip II. of Spain.  A beautiful youth; but this picture, alleged to have been painted by Alfonso Sanchez Coello, must be a copy.

The foregoing are the principal decorations along the gallery of this handsome and interesting room.  In an adjoining closet, where were once two or three portraits of Bonaparte, is a beautiful and highly finished small whole length of Philip Duke of Orleans, Regent of France.  Also a whole length of Marmontel, sitting; executed in crayon.  The curiously carved frame, in a brown-coloured wood, in which this latter drawing is contained, is justly an object of admiration with visitors.  I have scarcely seen a more appropriate ornament, for a choice cabinet, than this estimable portrait of Marmontel.  Here are portraits of Neckar, and Clement Marot, in crayons:  the latter a copy.  Here is, too, a cleverly painted portrait of L. de Boulogne.