Portrait of the Comte de Vaudreuil (Drouais)
| Portrait of the Comte de Vaudreuil | |
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| Artist | François-Hubert Drouais |
| Year | 1758 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, portrait painting |
| Dimensions | 225.4 cm × 161.3 cm (88.7 in × 63.5 in) |
| Location | National Gallery, London |
Portrait of the Comte de Vaudreuil is a 1758 portrait painting by the French artist François-Hubert Drouais.[1] [2] It depicts the young aristocrat and soldier Joseph Hyacinthe François de Paule de Rigaud, Comte de Vaudreuil. The eighteen-year old came from the French colony of Saint-Domingue in the Caribbean, where his father the Marqis de Vaudreuil served as governor. He is shown pointing at Saint-Domingue on a map.[3]
Vaudreuil served in the French Army during the Seven Years' War and the year of the painting took part in the Battle of Rossbach. He was later a prominent courtier under Louis XVI in the years before the French Revolution. Today the painting is in the collection of the National Gallery in London, having been acquired in 1927.[4] In 1784 Vaudreuil was painted by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, a work in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.[5]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Scott & Weilliams p.318
- ^ Milner p.11
- ^ Quilley & Kriz p.180
- ^ https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/francois-hubert-drouais-the-comte-de-vaudreuil
- ^ https://vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-8049467/
Bibliography
[edit]- Milner, Frank. Goya. Smithmark, 1995.
- Quilley, Geoff & Kriz, Kay Dian. An Economy of Colour: Visual Culture and the North Atlantic World, 1660-1830. Manchester University Press, 2003.
- Scott, Katie & Williams, Hannah. Artists' Things: Rediscovering Lost Property from Eighteenth-Century France. Getty Publications, 2024.
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