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Madame Marsollier and Her Daughter  1749

by Jean-Marc Nattier

Madame Marsollier was married, beneath her station, to a Parisian textile merchant whose shop was in the rue Saint-Honoré. Her portrait, exhibited at the Salon in 1750, displays in full measure the luxury fabrics that were the source of his fortune. The lady and her child are en déshabille, in revealing draperies that accentuate their pearly skin. It is not surprising that...
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Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art