Fanny Grimaldi, widowed, is aroused by love for her late husband's younger brother. Engraving by P. Bettelini, 1806, after P. Ermini after F.-X. Fabre, 1804.

Fanny de Birkenwald (Marie Françoise Wilhelmine Cécile Jacinthe Colette Ferdinande Dupré de Dortal de Birkenwald) married the Marquis Giovanni Battista Grimaldi Monaco. He died in Paris on 4 February 1803. She then became engaged to his younger brother, Don Luigi Grimaldi, but then she herself died on 6 February 1804, a year and two days after her husband. Don Luigi then commissioned from Fabre a portrait of himself, and a matching posthumous portrait of his late fiancée with the tomb of her deceased husband (the source of the present engraving). The two paintings were at some time published and offered for sale by Richard Feigen, New York City; subsequently offered for sale at Sotheby's, New York, 5 June 2014, Old Master Paintings, lot 49, and Sotheby's, New York, 4 June 2020, Old Masters, lot 125