François-Hubert Drouais

François-Hubert Drouais (December 14, 1727 – October 21, 1775) was a French painter and the father of Jean-Germain Drouais.

Drouais was born and died in Paris. He specialized in portraits of the French nobility, foreign aristocrats, writers, and other artists.^[1] He was a pupil of Donat Nonnotte. Some of his portraits include Louis XV's last two mistresses, Madame de Pompadour and Madame du Barry respectively. He even painted the young Marie Antoinette.

Gallery

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  His signature in "Family Portrait" in the collection of the National Gallery of Art
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  Portrait de Buffon (1707-1788)
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  Commemorative Portrait of Madame de Pompadour (1721-1764)
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  Madame Drouais (1758) Musée du Louvre, Paris
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  Louise Marie Thérèse "Bathilde d'Orléans" and her brother Louis Philippe Joseph d'Orléans, later known as Philippe Égalité, with an angel (c 1755)
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  Monsieur Denis-Paul le Pot de la Fontaine(?), 1772, oil on canvas, The Detroit Institute of Arts

References

1. ↑ Birmingham Museum of Art (2010). Birmingham Museum of Art: Guide to the Collection. London, UK: GILES. p. 192. ISBN 978-1-904832-77-5. Retrieved 2011-06-16. 

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