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Sébastian-Charles Giraud, Princess Mathilde in her Studio, c. 1865, oil.
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1 September 2011 | Prince Gabriel, Prince Philippe, Prince Emmanuel, Princess Mathilde and Princess Eléonore of Belgium arrive at Sint Jan Berghmans College in Brussels, Belgium. © Mark Renders/Getty Images
Princess Mathilde Bonaparte
By Franz Xaver Winterhalter
Sébastien-Charles Giraud (French, 1819-1892) • Painting Princess Mathilde’s Conservatory in the Mansion on Rue de Courcelles, Paris • 1864
JULES DESFOSSÉ FACTORY (1851-1947) • WALLPAPER – Winter Garden • France • 1853
Princess Mathilde, cousin of Napoleon III, was a key figure in the society life of the Second Empire. After an unhappy marriage to the wealthy Prince Demidoff, she settled in Paris where she lived lavishly, entertaining all the intellectuals, politicians and artists of the day in the drawing rooms of her luxurious mansion on Rue de Courcelles. Many of her guests - such as Flaubert, the Goncourt brothers, Sainte-Beuve and Ernest Renan – paid tribute to her generosity.The views of the princess’s home painted by Charles Giraud are meticulous renderings of her living environoment. She liked to welcome her friends in the conservatory, depicted in this painting with a soft light filtering through the exotic vegetation on the walls and a variety of furniture pieces and objects taking up the center of the room: a table, a Louis XV armchair, a Moorish pedestal table, some oriental vases and precious objects of all origins – an eclectic selection, therefore, that is highly representative of the spirit of the times.
Conservatories came into fashion with the London Exhibition of 1851 when the glass roof of the Crystal Palace caused a sensation. The wallpaper displayed here, designed by Edouard Muller for the Desfossé factory and entitled Winter Garden is another reflection of this. Jules Desfossé made a significant contribution to the revival of panoramic wallpapers but abandoned the series of scenes telling a story in favor of large landscapes and decorations which he considered worthy of great paintings. – Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
Édouard Louis Dubufe (French, 1819 - 1883) La princesse Mathilde (1820 - 1904), Detail, 1861
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Queen Mathilde of the Belgians during of the 2nd day of the 2023 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland - 18.01.23
Worn by princesse Mathilde:
Top: ca. 1864 Casual dress possibly owned by Princess Mathilde (Musée national du château de Compiègne - Compiègne, Oise, Hauts-de-France, France) photos - Stéphane Maréchalle. From pinterest.com/elvacawood/1811-1910-court-royal-gowns/.
Second row left: 1867 Day dress of Princess Mathilde Bonaparte From www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/5161360-day-dress-of-princess-mathilde-bonaparte-1867 500X621 @72 86kj.
Second row right: 1869 "Visite chinoisante" de la Princesse Mathilde (château Compiègne - Compiègne, Oise, Hauts-de-France, France) Photo credit - Daniel Arnaudet (from RMN) 509X640 @72 111kj.
women in history [5/?] Princess Mathilde Bonaparte
“She was a woman fit for a throne, but, given her sense of personal dignity and her independence of character, her union with a man of the Emperor's disposition would hardly have proved, we think, a satisfactory one. As it happened, she made a most unhappy marriage. Bom at Trieste in May, 1820, she was wedded at Florence, on November 1, 1840, to Prince Anatole Nicolaïewitch Demidoff, of San Donato, who was her senior by seven years. [...] Five years later he and his wife were separated. He had treated her with great cruelty, and it was the Emperor Nicholas who insisted on the separation. [...] Prince Demidoff survived until May, 1870, and for a good many years Princess Mathilde enjoyed the jointure fixed by the Czar, in addition to her French civil-list allowance. This enabled her to live in dignity, entertain freely, assist many struggling artists and writers, and do no little good unostentatiously in various ways.” E. A. Vizetelly (requested by @queenfredegund)
