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PAUL CÉSAR HELLEU La Duchesse de Marlborough.
Drypoint, circa 1900. 536x337 mm; 21 1/8x13 3/8 inches, full margins. Signed in pencil, lower left. Ex-collection Alfred Beurdeley (Lugt 421, lower right recto). 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.
