| Maker(s): | Carrogis, Louis (called Carmontelle)
| | Culture: | French (1717 – 1806)
| | Title: | Portrait of the Comtesse de Rochambeau
| | Date Made: | n.d.
| | Type: | Drawing
| | Materials: | Black and red chalks and watercolor, heightened with black chalk, on medium weight, slightly textured, cream-colored laid paper , on its original 18th century mount (once green)
| | Place Made: | France
| | Measurements: | mount: 12 3/8 in x 19 1/2 in; 31.4 cm x 49.5 cm; sheet: 12 1/4 in x 7 1/2 in; 31.1 cm x 19 cm
| | Narrative Inscription: | unsigned, undated, inscribed in brown in on verso: Mde de Ctesse de Rochamb(e)au-No 378
| | Accession Number: | SC 2012.31.1
| | Credit Line: | Purchased with the Diane Allen Nixon, class of 1957, Fund
| | Museum Collection: | Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
interior, older heavyset woman seated in floral print chair at a table with curved legs sewing, she has a blue ruffled dress and black lace cap, tall window with landscape behind her
Label Text:
Label text for ARH 240 French and Italian Drawings Renaissance through Romanticism, written by Suzanne Folds McCullagh, class of 1973, Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago:
In 1749, Jeanne-Thérèse Tellez d’Acosta married Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, the Comte de Rochambeau. A military leader and marshall of France, the Compte joined forces with General George Washington in support of American independence during the Revolutionary War. His mother, the Marquise de Rochambeau, was lady-in-waiting to the Duchesse d’Orléans at the court of Versailles. The Comtesse de Rochambeau, seen here in a unique composition by Carmontelle, became the nurse of the children of the Orléans family at their home in the Palais Royal in Paris. The baby in the pram could be either a member of the Orléans family or that of the Rochambeaus themselves.
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