Image: Gasparine Ursule Ida de Finguerlin de Bischingen (05)

Description: Gasparine Ursule Ida de Finguerlin of Bischingen, the youngest daughter of the Swiss baron Gaspard Henri de Finguerlin of Bischingen and Rose Henriette Péronne of Sercey (niece of the notorious countess Félicité de Genlis), was born in Paris on 1 November 1805 and died in Paris on 15 February 1846. She married a first time in Carlepont on 9 February 1830 with Thomas Strickland Standish of Sizergh and widowed in 1835, she married a second time in Paris on 5 January 1837 with Roger Aimery de Montesquiou-Fezensac. From her hairstyle and dress, this portrait would appear to have been painted five years later. As she is wearing black, and the dexter (left-hand) coat of arms is left blank, it may have been painted in her widowhood and sent to Sizergh, expecting that the Strickland arms would be added to it. Less than sixteen months after Thomas’s death she was married again, to Roger de Montesquiou, comte de Fezensac, which may account for their having been left blank.
Title: Portrait of Gasparine Ursule Ida de Finguerlin de Bischingen, Mrs Thomas Strickland Standish of Sizergh (1805-1846).
Credit: Gasparine Ursule Ida de Finguerlin de Bischingen, sur le site de Art UK.org.
Author: Unidentified painter
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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