Portrait of the Comte de Vaudreuil (Drouais)

Portrait of the Comte de Vaudreuil
Artist	François-Hubert Drouais
Year	1758
Type	Oil on canvas, portrait painting
Dimensions	225.4 cm × 161.3 cm (88.7 in × 63.5 in)
Location	National Gallery, London

Portrait of the Comte de Vaudreuil is a 1758 portrait painting by the French artist François-Hubert Drouais.[1] [2] It depicts the young aristocrat and soldier Joseph Hyacinthe François de Paule de Rigaud, Comte de Vaudreuil. The eighteen-year old came from the French colony of Saint-Domingue in the Caribbean, where his father the Marqis de Vaudreuil served as governor. He is shown pointing at Saint-Domingue on a map.[3]

Vaudreuil served in the French Army during the Seven Years' War and the year of the painting took part in the Battle of Rossbach. He was later a prominent courtier under Louis XVI in the years before the French Revolution. Today the painting is in the collection of the National Gallery in London, having been acquired in 1927.[4] In 1784 Vaudreuil was painted by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, a work in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.[5]

See also

• Portrait of the Comte de Vaudreuil by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun

References

1. Scott & Weilliams p.318
2. Milner p.11
3. Quilley & Kriz p.180
4. https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/francois-hubert-drouais-the-comte-de-vaudreuil
5. https://vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-8049467/

Bibliography

• Milner, Frank. Goya. Smithmark, 1995.
• Quilley, Geoff & Kriz, Kay Dian. An Economy of Colour: Visual Culture and the North Atlantic World, 1660-1830. Manchester University Press, 2003.
• Scott, Katie & Williams, Hannah. Artists' Things: Rediscovering Lost Property from Eighteenth-Century France. Getty Publications, 2024.