A Party at the Duc d'Orléans
by LAMI, Eugène Louis, Watercolour heightened with gouache on paper, 350 x 572 mm
The Duc d’Orl�ans, wearing the L�gion d’Honneur, is standing by the chimney. On the lower right, the woman sitting may be Madame Forster, famous dancer at the Op�ra. Wearing a beautiful gown and facing us as she sits is H�lene de Mecklembourg-Schwerin, Ferdinand-Philippe d’Orl�ans’ wife. Amongst the crowd on the right is a man with a turban, probably a spahi. Finally, on the right, a man wearing a goatee moustache standing by the chimney may be general Lamoriciere.