Marie Madeleine Broutin de la Ronde

Half-length portrait of Marie Madeleine Broutin de la Ronde as a young woman, shown against a dark ground in three-quarter view facing left. Her light-colored hair is styled in an updo. She wears a grey gown with v-neck trimmed with wide ruffled lace and ornamented with a gold gem-studded appliqué and full sleeves ornamented with a gemstone above the elbow. The sleeve is trimmed with wide ruffled lace. She is draped in a shawl or length of red fabric and holds a sprig of multi-clustered flowers, probably the Seven Sisters Rose, in her left hand.