Madame Marsollier and Her Daughter, 1749; Madame Marsollier, a well-known beauty, was the daughter of Monsieur Le Leu, an attorney to the king. Her husband was a wealthy textile merchant who bought his title of comte de Saint-Pierre. Ridiculed at court for her pretensions, she was known as the "Velvet Duchess." In his depiction of the sumptuous fabrics of the interior,