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Portrait of an old lady
(mid 18th century)
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 42.2 × 32.0 cm
- Accession Number
- 551-4
- Department
- International Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Bequest of Howard Spensley, 1939
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
- Not on display
- About this work
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Françoise Duparc was one of the earliest and most significant female painters working in eighteenth-century France. Born into a family of artists, Duparc was trained by her father, a Marseilles sculptor, and the painter Jean-Baptiste van Loo at Aix-en-Provence. Duparc worked as a portraitist throughout Europe before returning to Marseilles in 1771 and joining the Academy of Fine Arts in 1776. The handful of confirmed paintings by Duparc reveal an affinity with the austere and moralising realism of the Le Nain brothers from a century earlier, which can also be seen in this image of an elderly woman dressed with severe but refined simplicity.
- Subjects (general)
- Emotions and Mental States Human Figures Portraits
- Subjects (specific)
- bonnets (hats) busts (general, figures) elderly ribbon (material) women (female humans)