Portrait of Catherine Coustard, Marquise of Castelnau, Wife of Charles-Léonor Aubry with Her Son Léonor, c. 1700, Nicolas de Largillière, French, 1656 - 1746, 53 1/4 x 40 3/4 in. ( x cm) (sight)70 1/2 x 58 x 5 in. ( x x cm) (outer frame), Oil on canvas, France, 17th-18th century, Catherine Coustard (1673–1728), who came from a family of well-to-do cloth merchants in Paris, married into the Aubry family of wealthy middle-class civil servants and statesmen from Tours. Seated, smiling, with her son leaning across her lap, she’s the picture of contentment.

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