Marie Rinteau, called Mademoiselle de Verrières  1761

The sitter is Marie Rinteau, who in 1748 had given birth to an illegitimate daughter, Marie Aurore, by the famous soldier and courtier Maurice de Saxe (1696–1750). Marie is remembered as the great-grandmother of the writer George Sand (1840–1876). Marie and her sister Geneviève enjoyed a brief moment of success in music and theatre and long careers as cultured courtesans, ...