Attributed to Francois-Hubert Drouais (1727 - 1775). Francois-Hubert Drouais (Paris, 14 December 1727 in Paris, 21 October 1775) was a leading French portrait painter during the latter years of Louis XV's reign. His clientele included the French royal family and nobility, foreign aristocracy, fermiers-geraux (tax farmers), and the wealthier members of Parisian society and their favorites. But it was his increasing popularity at the French court that expanded his clientele and made his portraits a fashionable necessity. Drouais work was admired during his lifetime, and his popularity and clientele did not diminish from the occasional adverse judgement published in Salon reviews.Drouais was apprenticed successively to his father Hubert Drouais, Donat Nonnotte, Charles-Andre van Loo, Charles-Joseph Natoire, and Francois Boucher. He was received into the Academie royale in 1758 with his morceaux des reception portraits of the celebrated sculptors Edme Bouchardon (1698-1762) and Guillaume II Coustou (1716-77). Both portraits were exhibited at the Salon of 1759 and received praise. Drouais attended the meetings of the Academie royale and, from 1755 until his death in 1775, exhibited regularly at the official Salons held in the Louvre in Paris. Measure 47 3/4"in H x 36 1/2"in W. Frame measures 56"in H x 45"in W

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