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He trained with his father, Hubert Drouais (1699-1767) and then with Donat Nonotte (1708-1785), Carle van Loo (1705-1765), Charles-Joseph Natoire (1700-1777) and François Boucher (1703-1770). He became a member of the Académie Royale in 1755 and achieved quickly a great success as a portrait painter, receiving prestigious commissions, especially from the court.\r\n\r\nThis painting depicts a young lady  whose costume is datable ca. 1760. She is identified by an inscription on the parapet reading ‘Mlle Doré’, which could refer to either the future wife of the painter, Anne-Françoise Doré or her sister, Marie-Jeanne. This painting is a good example of Drouais’ production of portraits, a category in which he specialised with success.","physicalDescription":"In an oval format, set against a neutral grey background, bust portrait of a young lady wearing a blue dress and a blue hat held by a large knot under her chin, holding a rose in her right hand and leaning against a parapet.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Drouais","id":"A18975"},"association":{"text":"painter","id":"AAT25136"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"oil paint","id":"AAT15050"},{"text":"canvas","id":"AAT14078"}],"techniques":[{"text":"oil painting","id":"AAT178684"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Oil on canvas","categories":[{"text":"Paintings","id":"THES48917"},{"text":"Portraits","id":"THES48906"}],"styles":[{"text":"French School","id":"x31263"},{"text":"Rococo","id":"AAT21155"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2006AY9568","2006AC3181","2017KJ7264"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"2","id":"THES263058"},"free":"","case":"WE","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"oil paintings","id":"AAT33799"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Paris","id":"x29068"},"association":{"text":"painted","id":"x30138"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"before 1758","earliest":null,"latest":"1757-12-31"},"association":{"text":"painted","id":"x30138"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Bequeathed by John Jones","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"68.6","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"estimate","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"61","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"estimate","note":""},{"dimension":"Height","value":"84.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"framed","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"75","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"framed","note":""},{"dimension":"Depth","value":"10.4","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"framed","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Dimensions taken from <i>Catalogue of Foreign Paintings, I. 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Alastair Laing (written communication, Jan 2008).\n\nThe two copies, one in the Government Art Collection, London, and another sold at Sotheby's London, 1st Nov. 2007, lot 193, are moreover both attributed to Drouais. The inscription on the parapet reading 'Mlle Doré' seems therefore to allude to the identity of the sitter rather than that of the artist. \r\n \r\nThe sitter could in fact be identified with either the wife of the artist before their marriage (hence the inscription 'Mlle' which stands in French for 'Miss') or her sister, who came to live with the family after the wedding. \n\nIt is most likely however that the V&amp;A painting portrayed the wife of the artist as the sitter is very similar to a portrait of Madame Drouais, wife of the artist, dated ca. 1758 (Louvre, Paris). In the same guise as in our painting, she has some wild roses pressed against her heart and wears a similar blue dress with a large blue knot under her chin.\nCarnation and wild roses were often used as a symbol of bethrotal and love. This attribute would therefore illustrate appropriately the bond between the painter and his wife.\n\nBased on the style of the dress, similar to the one in the Louvre portrait, this painting can be reasonably dated c. 1760.\r\n\nDrouais was a successful portrait painter and was entrusted with a series of royal commissions. This portrait is a fine example of his art, which combines mastery and freshness.","briefDescription":"Oil painting, 'Portrait of  Mademoiselle Doré', François-Hubert Drouais, before 1758","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"C.M. Kauffmann, <u>Catalogue of Foreign Paintings, I. Before 1800</u>, London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1973, p. 87, cat. no. 87"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"J. J. Foster, <u>French art from Watteau to Prud'hon,</u>i, 1905, pl, iii."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"C. Gabillot in <u>Gazette des Beaux-Arts,</u> xxxiv, 1905, p. 392, n. 4."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"B. Long, <u>Catalogue of the Jones Collection,</u>1923, p. 7, pl. 31."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"C. M. Kauffmann in <u>Apollo,</u> xcv, 1972, p. 184, fig. 12."},{"reference":{"text":"<i>Créer au féminin : femmes artistes du siècle de Madame Vigée Le Brun</i>, Tokyo : Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, 2011","id":"AUTH357939"},"details":"no. 25","free":""},{"reference":{"text":"Miller, Lesley Ellis, and Ana Cabrera Lafuente, with Claire Allen-Johnstone, eds. <u>Silk: Fibre, Fabric and Fashion</u>. 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Her gown, its trimmings and the trimmings on her hat are of plain blue taffeta or satin, and her hat is covered in black silk. Skilled artisans and servants, as well as nobles and bourgeois, wore such fabrics, which were available in a great variety of colours.\r\n\r\nFrance (Paris)\r\nBy François-Hubert Drouais\r\nOil on canvas\r\nBequeathed by John Jones\r\n","date":{"text":"09/12/2015","earliest":"2015-12-09","latest":"2015-12-09"}},{"text":"The following is the label text from 1971 for Galleries 1-7 of the V&A:\r\n\r\n\"AN UNKNOWN GIRL\r\nAtrributed to MARIE-JEANNE DORÉ (b. 1736)\r\nInscribed on parapet: <i> Melle. Dore.</i>\r\n\r\nFrench School, about 1765. In an 18th century carved frame.\r\n\r\nThis painting has close affinity with the work of François-Hubert Drouais (1727-75) and it was formerly described as a portrait of Mademoiselle Doré by Drouais. However, there was a portrait painter who signed herself <i>Mlle Dore</i> in 1763 and 1765-about the time when this picture was painted-and it seems likely that, in this case also, Mademoiselle Doré was the painter rather than the sitter. She is probably to be indentified with Marie-Jeane Doré, Drouais' sister in law.\r\n\r\nJones Collection.\r\nMuseum No. 600-1882.\"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null}}],"partNumbers":["600-1882"],"accessionNumberNum":"600","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1882,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LM9798","2019LN9781","2019LN7916","2019LU0383","2019LT9092","2019LV1228","2019LW9806"],"recordModificationDate":"2026-02-19","recordCreationDate":"2007-02-28","availableToBook":false}}