Portrait of matilda stoughton de jaudenes sitting in a velvet armchair next to a table with two books and in front of a red-draped skyscape. She holds a folded fan, has powdered hair, and wears a gold-sprigged white dress, fichu, and a structured belt. She also wears plentiful jewelery; a large gem bracelet, chatelaine, choker necklace, brooch, earrings, hair jewelery, and a feathered headdress with standing aigrette. An inscription in the top left corner reads "dona matilde stoughton de jaudenes-esposa de don josef de jaudenes, y nebot comisario ordena-dor de los reales exercitos, de su magestad catholica y su ministro embiado cerca de los estados unidos de america-- nacio en la ciudad de nueva-york en los estados unidos el 11 de enero de 1778". Above the inscription is a coat of arms: per pale first azure, a cross engrailed ermine [the stoughton coat of arms], second gules, a fess argent, in chief three stars in fess or, a bundle of arrows fesswise reversed or [an unknown coat of arms]. ". Object Type: painting. Genre: portrait. Date: 1794. Place of creation: United States of America. Dimensions: 50 5/8 x 39 1/2 in. (128.6 x 100.3 cm). Medium: oil on canvas. Depicted People: Matilda Stoughton de Jaudenes y Nebot. Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Matilda Stoughton de Jaudenes MET DT2043
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