Posted by Dawn on April 23, 2013, 6:42 pm, in reply to "ID request...."
Source: my own postcard of Queen Hortense of Holland which I bought from a gift shop at the James Monroe estate.
This portrait (by Francois Pascal Simon Gerard) is hung at the home of President James Monroe (the Ash Lawn-Highland estate in Virginia). According to the caption on the back side of the post card, Queen Hortense gave three different portraits of herself, her brother Eugene and Madame Campan to the Monroe family after the christening of Hortensia Monroe. Madame Campan was once a headmistress of a school to which both Hortense de Beauharnais and Eliza Monroe attended.
The way the lady in the portrait in your post looks similar to this lady here in the post card. Although, the Queen here wore pearl pieces rather than turquoises.
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