| Maker(s): | Carrogis, Louis (called Carmontelle)
| | Culture: | French (1717 – 1806)
| | Title: | Portrait of the Duchesse de Lauzun(?)
| | Date Made: | n.d.
| | Type: | Drawing
| | Materials: | Black and red chalks and watercolor with traces of white chalk, onmedium weight, slightly textured, cream-colored laid paper, on its original 18th century mount (once green)
| | Place Made: | France
| | Measurements: | mount: 13 1/2 in x 9 1/16 in; 34.3 cm x 23 cm; sheet: 10 15/16 in x 6 9/16 in; 27.8 cm x 16.7 cm
| | Narrative Inscription: | unsigned, undated
| | Accession Number: | SC 2012.31.2
| | 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, young woman seated in profile in floral chair before a large open window with landscape beyond, she is wearing an orange dress with ruffles, and a black shawl and holds a small object in her lap
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:
Born into a family of Parisian artisans, Louis Carrogis adopted the name Carmontelle and joined the household of the duke of Orléans in 1763. As tutor to their children, Carmontelle planned moralizing theatrical productions and specialized in carefully drawn profile portraits such as these, creating an album of 480 similar drawings. This portrait is presumed to be the Duchesse de Lauzun, a friend of the Orléans family. The console table and the boiserie panel in the background—identical to those used to decorate the Hotel de Biron in Paris, the former home of the Duc de Lauzun and his family—are now in one of the period rooms at the Carnavalet Museum, Paris.
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