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Title: Portrait of a Lady (Madame de Gléon? (c. 1760)) Artist: Jean-Baptiste Grueze Style: Portraiture FYI: Grueze’s portrait depicts a young woman wearing a blue silk cape, painted half-length, and looking out of a stone window. Decorated on her fashionably powdered gay hair are pearls and blue silk flowers. This style was known as tête de mouton’ (’sheep’s head‘) and was popular in France in the 1750s. The decorations in her hair were called ‘pompoms’ after Madame de Pompadour (who popularized the style). Her cape is lined with brow fur and has a gathered hood that lays over her shoulders. Underneath is a white dress decorated with lace and a large white bow. Protecting her from the chill is a light beige cloth draped over the stone ledge. The strange pose of the woman at a stone window may have been influenced by ‘Girl at a Window’ by Rembrandt. The painting was in Paris during the 18th century until it was brought to London in the late 1770s. The chips and cracks on the stone ledge suggest that he knew of this device in the works of 17th-century Dutch artists. The lady might be Geneviève-Charlotte-Agnès Savalette, a writer and actress in amateur theatricals. The relaxed appearance and gaze toward something or someone outside of the picture suggest an informality that appeared in French portraiture around the 1750s. 🤔Geneviève performed theatricals at the château de La Chevrette, home to writer Madame Louise d’Épinay, a wealthy patron of the writer Rousseau. . . 🕊️⚜️Do you like it? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #18thCenturyFashion #XVIIICentury #NationalGalleryLondon #18thCenturyArt #XVIIIeSiècle #18thCenturyDress #1700s #1760s #EighteenthCentury #XVIII #PortraitPaintings 📷National Gallery, London 📝“Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Portrait of a Lady (Madame de Gléon?).” Jean-Baptiste Greuze | Portrait of a Lady (Madame de Gléon?) | NG5584 | National Gallery, London, www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/jean-baptiste-greuze-portrait-of-a-lady-madame-de-gleon. Accessed 1 Sept. 2023.