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| | The State Hermitage Museum: Hermitage News |
 | | The Hermitage's acquisition of Francois Fleury Richard's painting Valentine de Milan pleurant la mort de son époux Louis d'Orléans, assassiné en 1407 par Jean sans Peur, duc de Bourgogne (Valentina of Milan Mourning the Death of her Husband, the Duke of Orleans, slain in 1407 by John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy) |
 | | The canvas Valentina of Milan was painted on a historical subject and depicts Valentina of Milan mourning her husband, the Duke of Orleans, who was killed by John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, in 1407. |
 | | In 1814, the canvas was inherited by Eugene Beauharnais, Duke of Leuchtenberg, Prince of Eichstatt, and then by his son Maximilian, who in 1839 married a daughter of Nicholas I. In 1839, or perhaps 1853, Valentina of Milan came to Russia together with the collection of the Dukes of Leuchtenberg. |
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