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| Marie Françoise de La Cropte de St. Abre, Marquise d'Argence |
Artist:Jean Marc Nattier (French, Paris 1685–1766 Paris)
Date:1744
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:32 1/2 x 25 1/2 in. (82.6 x 64.8 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Gift of Jessie Woolworth Donahue, 1958
Accession Number:58.102.1
The marquise's name and the date are inscribed on the stretcher. In 1744, the year she sat for Nattier, she was married in Paris to François Achard Joumard Tison d'Argence (1719–1781), who descended from several families of great antiquity in Angoulême and Périgueux.
In this formal, frontal portrait the young sitter wears a pointed bodice trimmed with lace and pearls. An extravagant length of taffeta-like fabric is knotted at her breast. The trees, some with leafless branches, are unusual for a portrait in this relatively small format.
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