Nov 02, 2023 - Sale 2651

Sale 2651 - Lot 167

Price Realized: $ 3,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
PAUL CÉSAR HELLEU
La Duchesse de Marlborough.

Drypoint, circa 1900. 536x337 mm; 21 1/8x13 3/8 inches, full margins. Signed in pencil, lower right. A superb impression with richly-inked burr.

This sitter is Conseulo Vanderbilt (1877-1964), the New York heiress, who in 1895 married Charles Spencer-Churchill (Winston Churchill's cousin), the 9th Duke of Marlborough. Montesquiou VIII.