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Portrait of the Marquise d'Aguirandes
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About this work
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.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit linePortrait of the Marquise d'Aguirandes, 1759. François Hubert Drouais (French, 1727–1775). Oil on canvas; 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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of John L. Severance, 1942.638
