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Artist:
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Nicolas de Largillière
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Title:
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Portrait of Catherine Coustard (1673-1728), Marquise of Castelnau, Wife of Charles-Léonor Aubry (1667-1735) with her Son Léonor (1695-1770)
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Date:
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c. 1699
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Medium:
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Oil on canvas
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Dimensions:
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53 1/4 x 40 3/4 in. (135.26 x 103.51 cm) (sight)
70 1/2 x 58 x 5 in. (179.07 x 147.32 x 12.7 cm) (outer frame)
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Credit Line:
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The John R. Van Derlip Fund
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Location:
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Gallery 308
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Catherine Coustard came from a family of well-to-do cloth merchants in Paris and married into the Aubrys, wealthy, middle-class civil servants and statesmen from Tours. At the time of this portrait, her father-in-law had just been ennobled after serving twenty years as secretary to the king, thus precipitating the great step upward in family prestige that this picture commemorates.
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Artist/Creator(s)
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Name:
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de Largillière, Nicolas
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Nationality:
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French
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Life Dates:
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French, 1656 - 1746
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Object Description
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Inscriptions:
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Signature and Date BC (on robe of sitter, next to dog's paw): [Peint par N. de Largillierre 170..] (Date has been inter
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Physical Description:
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Portrait. Madame Aubry wears an ultramarine blue velvet dress, cloak lined with flowered brocade and a bodice of silver lamé with lace and rose ribbon. Her hand touches a whippet which may have belonged to the artist as it appears in other portraits. Her hair is styled à la Fontanges. She married into a family from Tours and later became the Marquise de Castelnau in the Berry region near Bourges.
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Creation Place:
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Europe, France, , ,
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Accession #:
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77.26
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Owner:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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