Jean-Marc Nattier, Portrait of a Woman
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Louis Dudley Beaumont Foundation, 1948.183 · The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0)View original →
Jean-Marc Nattier

Portrait of a Woman

c. 1748

Current Collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
82 × 65 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-110241

Jean-Marc Nattier was a favorite portraitist of King Louis XV of France. He held the lucrative position as the court painter for Queen Mary Lesczynski, the daughter of the exiled king of Poland. The portrait was long thought to be of Madame Henriette de France, one of the daughters of Louis XV and Queen Mary Lesczynski, but this identification is no longer accepted and the sitter remains unknown. There has been considerable confusion over the identity of many of Nattier's sitters, as they tend to conform to an idealized concept of female beauty.

Provenance

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Louis Dudley Beaumont Foundation, 1948.183

Registry history

  • c. 1748 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art

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