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Portrait of a Woman
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Jean-Marc Nattier was a favorite portraitist of King Louis XV of France. He held the lucrative position as the court painter for Queen Mary Lesczynski, the daughter of the exiled king of Poland. The portrait was long thought to be of Madame Henriette de France, one of the daughters of Louis XV and Queen Mary Lesczynski, but this identification is no longer accepted and the sitter remains unknown. There has been considerable confusion over the identity of many of Nattier's sitters, as they tend to conform to an idealized concept of female beauty.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit linePortrait of a Woman, c. 1748. Jean-Marc Nattier (French, 1685–1766). Oil on canvas; framed: 108 x 92.5 x 11 cm (42 1/2 x 36 7/16 x 4 5/16 in.); unframed: 82 x 65 cm (32 5/16 x 25 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Louis Dudley Beaumont Foundation, 1948.183
