The duc d'Orléans as a child, Adèle Varillat, 1817

Portrait of ferdinand-philippe d'orléans (1810-1842), 'than duc de chartres', eldest son of the futur french king louis-philippe. Painted in 1817, when louis-philippe and his family lived in twickenham, in a villa by the thames, that was called ever since the orléans house. The french painter, adèle tornézy-varillat ('madame varillat) lived in london and exhibited at the royal academy between 1816 and 1820. Exhibited louis-philippe, l'homme et le roi, archives nationales, paris, octobre 1974-février 1975, p. 69 n°252 literature jean vatout, galerie lithographiée de s. A. R. Mgr le duc d'orléans, 1825, tome iii, n°261-6. Object Type: painting. Genre: portrait. Date: 1817. Place of creation: Twickenham. Dimensions: height: 77 cm (30.3 in) ; width: 63.5 cm (25 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Depicted People: Prince Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans. Prince Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans as a child, by Madame Varillat