Césarine d'HOUDETOT, Baroness de BARANTE (1794-1877). Self-portrait with raised chignon and beaded headband. Portrait of Constance Césarine Marie Frédérique Brugière de Barante (1820-1895). Pencils on paper (corner crease, small accident, slight foxing). Sight: Height 36 and 38 cm - Width 28 and 30 cm Related work: a portrait of Césarine d'Houdetot by Ary Scheffer is in the collections of the Château de Versailles and the Trianon. Note: Césarine d'Houdetot, a French writer, was involved in a number of charities. Her granddaughter, Jeanne de Barante, married Alfred Sommier in 1872, a wealthy sugar industrialist who restored the Vaux-le-Vicomte estate from 1875 to 1908.