Cleveland Museum of Art
Portrait of the Marquise d'Aguirandes
François Hubert DrouaisLinkedCulture matchlcp-3e7107d96f5f
- Date
- 1759
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Culture
- France, 18th century
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 122341
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Like many French portraitists active during the ancien régime, François-Hubert Drouais was skilled at veiling the physical imperfections of his subjects. This portrait certainly has this quality: the face has been idealized, smoothed, and perfected, but the focus of the painting is less on the Marquise and more on her elegant gown, which is a particularly fine rendering of eighteenth-century printed cloth, with the brilliant gold and white fabric strewn with meticulously detailed flowers and lace.
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Provenance & credit
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- Credit line
- Bequest of John L. Severance
- Provenance
- M. de Callieux, Lyons, France, descendant of the sitter | Wildenstein & Co., New York, NY | 1928-1936: John L. Severance (1863-1936), Cleveland Heights, OH, purchased from CMA exhibition, upon his death, held in trust by the estate | 1936-1942: Estate of John L. Severance Collection, by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art. | 1942-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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