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. Object Type: painting. Genre: portrait. Date: 1759. Place of creation: France, 18th century. 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.). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art. François Hubert Drouais - Portrait of the Marquise d'Aigurande - Clevelandart 1942.638
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