File:Drouais - Madame Sophie de France (1734-1782) - Metropolitan Museum of Art.jpg
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Summary
François-Hubert Drouais: Madame Sophie de France (1734–1782)
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Title |
Madame Sophie de France (1734–1782)  |
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painting |
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| Genre |
portrait |
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| Description |
English: Madame Sophie de France (1734–1782), she was the sixth of eight daughters of Louis XV of France. Timid and self-effacing, she lived among members of the royal family at the châteaux of Bellevue and Versailles until her early death at forty-seven. She wears a magnificent dress of striped and flowered damask with a hair ornament of flowers and straps of the same material. |
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| Depicted people |
Sophie of France |
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| Date |
1762 |
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| Medium |
oil on canvas |
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| Dimensions |
height: 65.1 cm (25.6 in) ; width: 53 cm (20.8 in) |
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| Collection |
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| Current location |
not on view |
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| Accession number |
64.159.1 (Metropolitan Museum of Art) |
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| Object history |
Provenance: ?Baronin Hannah Mathilde von Rothschild, Schloss Grüneberg, Frankfurt-am-Main (until d. 1924); [John Levy Galleries, New York]; [Piero Tozzi, New York, until 1954; sold to French & Co.]; [French & Co., New York, 1954; sold to Oakes Foundation]; Oakes Foundation (1954–55; on loan to the De Young Museum; exchanged with French & Co.); [French & Co., New York, 1955–57, as "Marquise de Beauffremont"; sold for $11,000 to Fallass]; Barbara Lowe Fallass, Cross River, N.Y. (1957–64) |
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| Exhibition history | New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Eighteenth-Century Woman," December 12, 1981–September 5, 1982, unnumbered cat. (p. 52). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | Gift of Barbara Lowe Fallass, 1964 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes | For the memorandum of paintings commissioned by the Mesdames, daughters of Louis XV, from Drouais, and delivered between 1763 and 1764, see Fernand Engerand, Inventaire des tableaux commandés et achetés par la Direction des Batîments du Roi (1769–1792), Paris, 1901, pp. 167–69. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| References | Metropolitan Museum of Art, online collection (The Met object ID 436215) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | http://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ph/web-large/DP72106.jpg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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