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Marie Adélaïde de Savoie (1685–1712), Duchesse de Bourgogne  1710

by Pierre Gobert

Gobert was accepted as a full member of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in 1701 and in 1704 sent portraits of members of the royal family to The Salon. He was favored at the court and Marie Adélaïde, the mother of Louis XV, sat for him on more than one occasion. [br] Gobert trained with his father, a sculptor, and was working as a court portraitist in 1682...
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Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art