Title
Portrait of the Marquise dAguirandes, 1759. Creator: François Hubert Drouais (French, 1727-1775).
Caption
Portrait of the Marquise dAguirandes, 1759. 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.
Credit line
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Reference
HRM19G00_402
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
License type
Rights managed
Available size
54,5Mb (3,7Mb) / 13,1in x 16,2in / 3924 x 4853 (300dpi)