id: 122341 accession number: 1942.638 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.638 updated: 2023-03-20 14:14:06.194000 Portrait of the Marquise d'Aguirandes, 1759. François Hubert Drouais (French, 1727–1775). Oil on canvas; 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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of John L. Severance 1942.638 title: Portrait of the Marquise d'Aguirandes title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1759 creation date earliest: 1759 creation date latest: 1759 current location: 216B French and German creditline: Bequest of John L. Severance copyright: --- culture: France, 18th century technique: oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - French 18th Century type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * François Hubert Drouais (French, 1727–1775) - artist --- measurements: 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed upper left: "Drouais fecit 1759" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries opening date: 1934-11-09T05:00:00 Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 9-December 2, 1934). title: Exhibition of the John L. Severance Collection opening date: 1942-11-12T04:00:00 Exhibition of the John L. Severance Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 12, 1942-March 14, 1943). title: Style, Truth and the Portrait opening date: 1963-10-01T04:00:00 Style, Truth and the Portrait. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 1-November 19, 1963). title: Paris: Life & Luxury opening date: 2011-04-26T00:00:00 Paris: Life & Luxury. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (organizer) (April 26-August 7, 2011); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (September 18, 2011-January 1, 2012). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Representative Art through the Ages. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 8- December 2, 1928). * Exhibition of French Art form 1200-1900, Roual Academy of Arts, Burlington House, London (January 4-March 5, 1932). * 20th Anniversary Exhibition, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 26-October 12, 1936). * Portraits: Mirror of Man, The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada (September 30 to October 28, 1956). * The Rococo Age: French Masterpieces of the 18th Century, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA (5 October-31 December 1983). * Magic Mirror: the Portrait in France 1700-1900, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, TX (October 10, 1986-January 25, 1987). --- PROVENANCE M. de Callieux, Lyons, France, descendant of the sitter date: footnotes: citations: Wildenstein & Co., New York, NY date: footnotes: citations: John L. Severance (1863-1936), Cleveland Heights, OH, purchased from CMA exhibition, upon his death, held in trust by the estate date: 1928-1936 footnotes: citations: Estate of John L. Severance Collection, by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art. date: 1936-1942 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1942- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: 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. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Wildenstein, George "Le XVIIIe Siecle," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, vol. VII (January 1932). page number: p. 65, fig. 12 url: Léon, Paul, W.G. Constable, and Trenchard Cox. Exhibition of French art, 1200-1900 [second ed.]. London: Burlington House, 1932. page number: no. 249, cat. no. 160 url: Wildenstein, George "Paintings from America in the French Exhibition," Fine Arts, vol XIX (January 193?). page number: p. 26, repr. p. 23 url: Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain). Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of French Art, 1200-1900. London: Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1933. page number: Mentioned: p. 44, no. 160 url: The Connoisseur (November 1934). page number: p. 335 url: Tietze, Hans. Meisterwerke europäischer Malerei in Amerika, mit über 300 Kupfertiefdrucktafeln. Wien: Phaidon-Verlag, 1935. page number: p. 259 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of the Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition : June Twenty-Sixth to October Fourth 1936. [Cleveland, Ohio]: [Cleveland Museum of Art], 1936. page number: no. 58, p. 32. repr. plate IV url: Milliken., W. M. "World Art at Cleveland," American Magazine of Art, XXIX (July 1936). page number: p. 435 url: Art News, (June 13, 1936). page number: p. 13 url: Catalogue of the John L. Severance Collection: Bequest of John L. Severance, 1936. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1942. page number: Reproduced: p. [20], Plate VIII, cat. no. 4; Mention: p. 21, cat. no. 4 url: https://archive.org/details/SeveranceBequest/page/n25 Art Digest, vol. XVII (December 1, 1942). page number: p. 8 url: Francis, Henry S. “Department of Paintings.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 29, no. 9 (1942). page number: pp. 130, 135 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141016 Comstock, Helen "The John L Severance Collection at Cleveland," Connoisseur, CXI (March 1943). page number: pp. 61, 63 url: "Cleveland Museum," Life Magazine, (September 20, 1943). page number: p. 66 url: Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1945. page number: Reproduced: p. 31 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAPaintings1945/page/n39 Kertesz, M. Wagner de. Historia universal de las joyas. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Centurion, 1945. page number: p. 513 url: Goncourt, Edmond de, and Jules de Goncourt. French XVIII Century Painters. New York: Phaidon, 1948. page number: p. v url: Coe, Nancy. The History of the Collecting of European Paintings and Drawings in the City of Cleveland. 1955. page number: p. 231, no. 4 url: Winnipeg Art Gallery. Portraits, Mirror of Man: [Exhibition] September 30 to October 28, 1956. Winnipeg: The Gallery, 1956. page number: cat. no. 24, pp. 1, 8 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 483 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n88 "Francois Boucher review of Gunnar W Lundberg's Alexander Roslin: Liv och verk (sa vie et son oeuvre)" Gazette des Beaux-Arts, LVI (1960). page number: p. 243, fig. 2 url: Saisselin, Rémy G. Style, Truth, and the Portrait. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1963. page number: cat. no. 51 url: Davidson, Ruth "Features-Special Events," ("Portraits in Cleveland"), Antiques, vol. LXXXIV (October 1963). page number: p. 464 url: "The Artist View of Man: Portraiture Through Four Centuries," the Illustrated London News, vol. 243 (October 5, 1963). page number: p. 521 url: Spar, Francis, "La Lettre d'information de Francis Spar: Les nouveaux goûts," Connaissance des Arts, no. 140 (October 1963). page number: p. 49 url: Boucher, François. Histoire du costume en Occident, de l'antiquité a nos jours, [par] Franc̜ois Boucher. [Paris]: Flammarion, 1965. page number: p. 297, fig. 716 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 136 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n160 "Apollo Magazine" advertisement, Art In America, (May-June 1967). page number: p. 74 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 136 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n160 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 179 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n199 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. page number: Reproduced: p. 66; Mentioned: p. 67 url: Zafran, Eric. The Rococo Age: French Masterpieces of the Eighteenth Century. Atlanta, Ga: High Museum of Art, 1983. page number: cat. no. 33, pp. 73, 88 url: Shackelford, George T. M., and Mary Tavener Holmes. A Magic Mirror: The Portrait in France, 1700-1900 : the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 12, 1986-January 25, 1987. Houston, Tex: The Museum, 1986. page number: cat. no. 13, p. 58 url: Kyōto Kokuritsu Kindai Bijutsukan, and Kyōto Fukushoku Bunka Kenkyū Zaidan. Karei na kakumei: rokoko to shin koten no ishō ten : 1989-nen 4-gatsu 4-nichi--5-gatsu 28-nichi, Kyōto Kokuritsu Kindai Bijutsukan. [Kyoto]: Kyōto Fukushoku Bunka Kenkyū Zaidan, 1989. page number: p. 140 url: Ribeiro, Aileen. Dress in Eighteenth-Century Europe. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. page number: Pls. 92-93, 105, pp. 140, 143, 156 url: DeJean, Joan. "Extravagent display: Paris Life and Luxury". Antiques (May/June 2011). page number: p. 145, fig. 8 url: Bremer-David, Charissa. Paris: Life & Luxury in the Eighteenth Century. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011. page number: Fig. 63, p. 106 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.638/1942.638_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.638/1942.638_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.638/1942.638_full.tif