Portrait, Musee Balzac, Chateau de Sache
Portrait of Laure Junot, duchess of Abrantes, 1784-1838, French writer, oil painting on canvas, mid 19th century, by Hector Jean-Louis Viger-Duvigneau, 1819-79, after the original of 1812 by Ferdinando Quaglia, 1780-1853, in the Musee Balzac at the Chateau de Sache, a Renaissance manor house built 15th century, in Sache near Tours in the Loire Valley, France. Jean Margonne owned the building in the 19th century and Balzac stayed here many times from 1825 to 1840, working and writing. The chateau is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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