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_id: cnp00590129
data:
actDates:
- lang: ger
start: 1798
text: 1798-
actNote:
- intro: acti
lang: ger
text: Marquise
- authority: sswd
intro: acti
lang: ger
text: Personen der Geschichte (Politiker und historische Persönlichkeiten) (16.5p)
uri: http://d-nb.info/standards/vocab/gnd/gnd-sc#16.5p
bioDates:
- end: 1807
lang: ger
start: 1759
text: 1759-1807
extDataset:
- code: VIAF
note:
- lang: eng
text: Clustered authority record
searchTerm: http://viaf.org/viaf/107033612
typeOfResource: same
- code: DNBI
note:
- lang: eng
text: Authority record
searchTerm: http://d-nb.info/gnd/116644834
typeOfResource: same
- code: WDAT
note:
- lang: eng
text: Wikidata description set
searchTerm: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2825325
typeOfResource: same
- code: LINK
note:
- lang: und
text: '
In her earlier portraits of French nobility, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard had proven herself adept at rendering intricate details of elaborate clothing, furniture, and architecture. In Presumed Portrait of the
Marquise de Lafayette (1759-1807), however, the artist demonstrates how effective an image she can create using a minimal number of elements. In 1774 Adrienne de Noailles, member of a powerful family of French aristocrats, had married the marquis de Lafayette. This portrait, presumed to depict her, was most likely painted in 1790. By that time the marquise's husband had already become well known in both French and American politics.Appropriately, Labille-Guiard's sitter wears a simple dress of the type favored by women during the early years of the French Revolution. She wears no ornate jewelry. She is not posed in an elaborate architectural setting, and even the landscape behind the marquise is relatively restrained in keeping with the simplicity of her apparel and her pose. Her somewhat tentative smile emphasizes the sitter's physical attractiveness without unduly flattering her.
'
rights: '