Portrait of Adrien-Maurice, Duke of Noailles
1721; printed posthumously after 1780
Medium
Engraving on tan wove paper
Dimensions
Image/sheet; cut within plate: 44.5 × 36 cm (17 9/16 × 14 3/16 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
181037
Art Historical Context
Welcome to the Prints and Drawings department at the Art Institute of Chicago where Pierre Drevet's *Portrait of Adrien-Maur, Duke of Noailles (1721; printed posthumously after 0) captures the grandeur of 18th-century French nobility. finely detailed engraving on tan wove paper measures 44.5 × 36 cm and reproduces a portrait likely after Hyacinthe Rigaud, master portraitist of Louis XIV's court. Drevet, a leading French engraver of his time, was renowned for translating Rigaud's opulent oils into intricate prints, preserving the duke's dignified pose, elaborate wig, and richly textured attire ...