Ecole de Maurice-Quentin de LA TOUR (1704-1788) Presumed portrait of the Countess de Rennel. Pastel. Mounted on cardboard. On the reverse of the supporting cardboard, an old pencil annotation "Mme la comtesse de Rennel par La Tour". 48.5 x 37.5 cm. Carved and gilded wooden frame with acanthus leaf motif partly from the 18th century. The indication on the reverse could refer either to Countess Marguerite Gabrielle de Rennel (1739 - ?), daughter of Nicolas François de Rennel, who married her relative Joseph Balthazar de Rennel (1726-1795), or to Marie-Anne d'Hofflize Liégeois (? - 1730) wife of Thomas Baltazar de Rennel, of Lescut and the Empire, Chevalier, Seigneur de Bettoncourt.