Louis François de Bourbon, Prince de Conti

Louis François de Bourbon was a French nobleman and Prince of Conti from 1727 to his death, following his father, Louis Armand II de Bourbon. He pursued a military career in 1741 by the time the War of the Austrian Succession broke out. In 1746, he was transferred to the Netherlands and retired from his military engagement a year later. His involvement in France’s politics proved complicated and resulted in his exile from court. Conti accumulated a vast art collection which was housed in a special gallery at his residence at the Palais du Temple. Following de Bourbon’s death, his art collection was sold by the Paris art dealers P. Remy in 1777 and Boileau in 1779. Among his estate were two paintings that later belonged to Adolphe Schloss: A painting by Caspar Netscher entitled Portrait de famille (Schloss German no. 161/ French no. 188) and a painting by Gerard ter Borch entitled Intérieur de cabaret (Schloss German no. 213/ French no. 254).