Louise-Marie de France

Louise-Marie de France
 1763

Gallery location
17th & 18th Century Decorative Arts & Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International

Artwork Details

Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
73.7 × 59.8 cm
Inscription
inscribed in black paint c.r.: Drouais le fils / 1763
Accession Number
1359-5
Department
International Painting
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Everard Studley Miller Bequest, 1964
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited
Gallery location
17th & 18th Century Decorative Arts & Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
Subjects (general)
Biographical Portraits
Subjects (specific)
books dresses (garments) flower (motif) half figures lace (needlework) nobility princesses women (female humans)
Frame
French, Louis XV

Frame

The frame on Louise-Marie de France is a fine example of carved and gilded swept edge Louis XV French frames. It is carved in oak and the reverse of each section is hollowed out to relieve tension in the timber with exchanges in moisture content. The corners are mitred and cross-splined. It is in remarkably good condition (despite being re-gilded) and a prime example of this type of French frame which was heavily reproduced throughout the nineteenth century and beyond in broad, loosely detailed variations.
There is no reason to think the frame on the Drouais might not be the original presentation of the painting. It forms a well balanced relationship between the emphatic, decorative corners and centres of the frame and the compositional structure of the painting.

Frame Details

Framemaker
Unknown - 18th century
Date
c.1760
Materials

carved oak and gold leaf

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