COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
Record
AMICA ID:
MIA_.77.26
AMICA Library Year:
1998
Object Type:
Paintings
Creator Name:
Largillière, Nicolas de
Creator Nationality:
European; French
Creator Role:
painter
Creator Dates/Places:
1656 - 1746
Gender:
M
Creator Name-CRT:
Nicolas de Largillière
Title:
Portrait of Catherine Coustard, Marquise de Castelnau, Wife of Charles-Léonor Aubry, with Her Son Léonor
View:
Front
Creation Date:
1699 - 1700
Creation Start Date:
1699
Creation End Date:
1700
Materials and Techniques:
oil on canvas
Classification Term:
Oil On Canvas
Dimensions:
H.54-1/2 x W.41-3/4 in.
Component Measured:
overall
Measurement Unit:
in
AMICA Contributor:
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Owner Location:
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
ID Number:
77.26
Credit Line:
The John R. Van Derlip Fund
Inscriptions:
SIGNATURE
Context:
Catherine Coustard came from a family of well-to-do cloth merchants in Paris and married into the Aubrys, wealthy, middle-class civil servants and statesmen from Tours. At the time of this portrait, her father-in-law had just been ennobled after serving twenty years as secretary to the king, thus precipitating the great step upward in family prestige that this picture commemorates.
Related Image Identifier Link:
MIA_.458c.tif
