Portrait of Madame du Barry, after Drouais
Medium
Etching and engraving; second state
Dimensions
Sheet: 9 3/8 × 12 9/16 in. (23.8 × 31.9 cm) Plate: 8 3/4 × 11 15/16 in. (22.3 × 30.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1954
Accession Number
54.533.7
Tags
PortraitsWomen
About the Artist
François Hubert Drouais|Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet · 1727–1775
He was a fashionable portraitist. He is best known for portraits of children and one of Mme de Pompadour from 1763, completed after her death. Comment on works: Portraits