Madame de Maison-Rouge as Diana

This is a disguised portrait, in which the sitter is shown as Diana, goddess of the hunt, with her traditional attributes, the bow and the quiver of arrows. She is dressed in virginal white. It seems likely that she was Mademoiselle Belot, who, in 1756, became the third wife of Étienne de Maison-Rouge, receveur général des finances. The tightly coiffed and powdered hair worn with a small corsage of flowers was typical for the time. (Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art)