Marie of Orleans (Palermo, 1813 - Pisa, 1839) Portrait of a lady Fixed under glass. Signed on the right: "Marie". On the reverse of the frame: "Study from life (...) to his friend Biesta 1838". In its original frame. 15,5 x 12,5 cm A patron of the arts and a romantic artist, Marie d'Orléans was the youngest daughter of Louis-Philippe and Marie-Amélie de Bourbon-Sicile. She was a student of Ary Scheffer who taught her drawing from 1822, then sculpture in 1834. She also built up a collection of furniture and objects from the late Middle Ages to the 17th century. She died at the age of 25 in Pisa, suffering from phthisis, shortly after the birth of her son, Philippe de Wurtemberg.