Pair Of Portraits

Pair of portraits representing the *Count de Buffon and his wife Marie-Francoise de Saint Belin -Malain oils on canvas after the painter **François-hubert Drouais XVIII th century. The Count is represented standing dressed in a red velvet jacket embroidered with gold thread, his left hand slipped under his yellow silk waistcoat embroidered with flowers revealing a fine white lace. His wife with a powdered face and curly hair is dressed in a blue evening dress embroidered with gold thread and white lace enhanced with a drape of red and gold silk. This pair of portraits is presented in their original frames in wood gilded with gold leaf carved with a frieze of pearls and a beribboned frieze from the Louis XVI XVIIIth century. Original canvas and frame (frame formerly re-gilded with gold leaf) * Georges-Louis Leclerc, Count of Buffon (7 September 1707-16 April 1788) married on September 22, 1752 to Marie-Francoise de Saint Belin -Malain est a French naturalist, mathematician, biologist, cosmologist, philosopher and writer. Both an academician of sciences and a French academician, he participates in the spirit of the Enlightenment. His theories have influenced two generations of naturalists, in particular Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck and Charles Darwin. **François-Hubert Drouais, dit Drouais le fils (born December 14, 1727 in Paris, where he died October 21, 1775) was a French painter, specializing in portraits, whose production he dominated at the end of the reign of Louis XV.