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PORTRAIT OF HENRIETTE, DUCHESS OF ORLÉANS, AS HEBE

Creator(s): Dubois (Painter) , Jean-Marc Nattier (After)

On view in: Adam Bedroom


About this object

Bust sized portrait of a woman dressed up as Hebe. She wears roses in her hair and has a low-cut white dress. Over each shoulder is a garland of flowers that falls across the front of her dress.

Object name:
PORTRAIT OF HENRIETTE, DUCHESS OF ORLÉANS, AS HEBE
Made from:
Oil on canvas -- frame
Made in:
Paris, France
Date made:
1790
Size:
62.2 × 50.8 cm (24 1/2 × 20 in.)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:
51.5
Class:
PAINTING
Signature marks:
INSCRIPTIONS 2173 [in red on upper left-hand corner]; 54 [in large white letters on upper right side]; 603 [in very small white letters on lower]; Dlle D'Orléans/mère du Duc Actuel/par Dubois élève/de David 1790 [on back -- Trans: "Demoiselle d'Orleans, mother of the current Duke, by Dubois, a student of David, 1790"; XXI-193-445 [in pencil on back]; Bedroom [in pencil on back]
Credit line:
Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973