EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY FRENCH SCHOOL, ENTOURAGE OF JACQUES HENRI SABLET. "Young woman with a rose in a garden, presumed to be a portrait of Désirée Clary. 73 x 60 cm. Oil on canvas (reentered). Sash marked in pen "Painting revarnished in September 1867. Déglise E(...) " B.E. Work in connection : François GERARD, "Portrait of Désirée Clary", 1810, Musée Marmottan. History: Désirée Clary (Marseille 1777-Stockholm 1860), queen of Sweden. Daughter of a merchant of Marseille, François Clary, she married in 1798 the general Bernadotte, after having been the fiancée of Bonaparte (1795).

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