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Portrait of the Marquise d'Aguirandes

François-Hubert Drouais1759

The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States

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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  • Title: Portrait of the Marquise d'Aguirandes
  • Creator: François Hubert Drouais (French, 1727–1775)
  • Date Created: 1759
  • Physical Dimensions: Framed: 138.6 x 111.9 x 13.7 cm (54 9/16 x 44 1/16 x 5 3/8 in.); Unframed: 101 x 85.6 cm (39 3/4 x 33 11/16 in.)
  • Provenance: M. de Callieux, Lyons, France, descendant of the sitter, Wildenstein & Co., New York, NY, John L. Severance (1863-1936), Cleveland Heights, OH, purchased from CMA exhibition, upon his death, held in trust by the estate, Estate of John L. Severance Collection, by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art., The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Type: Painting
  • Rights: CC0
  • External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.638
  • Medium: oil on canvas
  • Inscriptions: Signed upper left: "Drouais fecit 1759"
  • Department: European Painting and Sculpture
  • Culture: France, 18th century
  • Credit Line: Bequest of John L. Severance
  • Collection: P - French 18th Century
  • Accession Number: 1942.638
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