This large and elegant conversation piece à l’anglaise is a masterpiece of portraiture at the start of the French Revolution. The daughter of Louise Philippe Joseph de Bourbon, Duc d’Orléans, is taking a music lesson from her governess Madame de Genlis, while her English companion Mademoiselle Paméla looks on.... exhibited at the newly democratized Salon, where its presence was far from fortuitous. http://books0977.tumblr.com/post/144683434327/mademoiselle-dorl%C3%A9ans-taking-a-harp-lesson