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This painting shows the future royals, the Orléans family. The Duc d'Orléans (1747-1793) lifts up a curtain to watch his young baby, the future King Louis-Philippe (1773-1850), sleeping. The composition is lavished with a wealth of detail, emphasising the rich velvet of the chairs or the curtains surrounding the baby. Lépicié seems to also have spent time over the portrait of the young black servant Scipion, whose exotic profile is painted with care.
The painting is signed and dated: Lépicié 1774.
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