A woman sitting in an upholstered chair near a vanity table touches the hair of the little girl leaning against her lap to our left, as a man leans onto the back of her chair to our right in this vertical portrait painting. The people all have pale skin, flushed cheeks, and their pale gray hair is pulled back and curled. Their pink lips curve in slight smiles, and light glinting off of much of the fabric suggests they wear satin or silk. The woman’s body is angled to our left, toward the girl, but she turns her head back to look up over her other shoulder with gray eyes. A voluminous,…
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Family Portrait

François-Hubert Drouais (French, 1727 - 1775)

1756

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 244 x 195 cm (96 1/16 x 76 3/4 in.) ; framed: 281.9 x 224.8 x 21 cm (111 x 88 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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