Portrait of the Marquise dAguirandes, 1759. 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.

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Keywords: 1727-1775, 18th, art, canvas, century, cleveland, drouais, france, françois, french, heritage, hubert, museum, oil, painting