# The Generosity of the Duchess of Angoulème

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## Artwork

- Artist: [HAUDEBOURT-LESCOT, Hortense](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/haudebourt-lescot-hortense-rbce283b25d4e44>)
- Date: 1801-1850
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 51 x 42 cm

## Commentary

Haudebourt-Lescot continued the tradition of Boilly and Marguerite Gerard, painting intimate genre scenes with a high degree of finish. In the present painting, the Duchess of Angoulème gives a young girl a purse as a dowry, her proud father, a veteran of the Napoleonic wars, stands proudly looking on, some villagers can be seen looking at the scene through the cottage window. The painter was patronized by the Duchess of Berry, sister-in-law of the Duchess of Angoulème.

## Related artworks

- [Italian Women](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/haudebourt-lescot-hortense-rbce283b25d4e44/italian-women-r8211e61af828bf>)
- [Mary, Queen of Scots](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/haudebourt-lescot-hortense-rbce283b25d4e44/mary-queen-of-scots-rc5a0b4800fb647>)
- [Nude Model in the Artist&#39;s Studio](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/haudebourt-lescot-hortense-rbce283b25d4e44/nude-model-in-the-artists-studio-r752cd95efa92a8>)
- [Self-Portrait](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/haudebourt-lescot-hortense-rbce283b25d4e44/self-portrait-r1d713caabd699f>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)