cma-european-art: Portrait of the Marquise d'Aguirandes, François Hubert Drouais , 1759, Cleveland M
cma-european-art: Portrait of the Marquise d'Aguirandes, François Hubert Drouais , 1759, Cleveland Museum of Art: European Painting and SculptureLike 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.Size: 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 ¾ x 33 11/16 in.)Medium: oil on canvashttps://clevelandart.org/art/1942.638 -- source link
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