François Hubert Drouais - Family Portrait



François Hubert Drouais
Family Portrait
1756
244 x 195 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right on box lid: Fs.Drouais.ce 1 avril. 1756
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Samuel H. Kress Collection

Family portrait

Literature

Collection catalogues
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 433
Philip Conisbee, French paintings of the fifteenth through the eighteenth century, Washington; Princeton, N.J., 2009, nr. 27


Provenance

with Wertheimer, London
purchased 1889 by Samuel Cunliffe-Lister, 1st baron Masham (1815-1906), Swinton Park, near Bedale, Yorkshire
by inheritance to his son, Samuel Cunliffe Cunliffe-Lister, 2nd baron Masham (1857-1917), Swinton Park
by inheritance to his brother, John Cunliffe Cunliffe-Lister, 3rd baron Masham (1867-1924), Swinton Park
by inheritance to his cousin, Lady Lloyd-Greame (née Mary Constance Boynton, later Viscountess Swinton, died 1974), Swinton Park
purchased November 1936 by Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris
purchased 1942 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York
gift 1946 to NGA

External links

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Accession number 1946.7.4

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François Hubert Drouais Joseph-Hyacinthe-François de Paulde de Rigaud
Joseph-Hyacinthe-François de Paulde de Rigaud
1758

Attributed to François Hubert Portrait of a lady, half-length
Portrait of a lady, half-length

François Hubert Drouais Jeanne Bécu, Comtesse du Barry
Jeanne Bécu, Comtesse du Barry
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François-Hubert Drouais Boy with a House of Cards
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François-Hubert Drouais Portrait of a Woman, Said to be Madame Charles Simon Favart (Marie Justine Benoîte Duronceray, 1727-1772)
Portrait of a Woman, Said to be Madame Charles Simon Favart (Marie Justine Benoîte Duronceray, 1727-1772)
1757