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Portrait of the Marquise d'Aguirandes
1759
(French, 1727–1775)
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.)
Bequest of John L. Severance 1942.638
Location: 216B French and German
Description
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.- M. de Callieux, Lyons, France, descendant of the sitterWildenstein & Co., New York, NY1928-1936John L. Severance (1863-1936), Cleveland Heights, OH, purchased from CMA exhibition, upon his death, held in trust by the estate1936-1942Estate 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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