Portrait Of An Elegant Late Eighteenth-early Nineteenth Century

Oil on canvas representing a young woman in profile wearing a pink dress, a large straw hat tied with a ribbon and a muff. This charming painting is attributed to François Watteau dit Watteau de Lille, grand-nephew of Antoine Watteau. This artist has multiplied fashion images in drawing, engraving and painting, participating in particular in the Cahiers de costumes français. Moreover, he liked to represent elegant ladies in absolute profile, their faces hidden by loose hats – as is the case in our painting. We find in a large painting by his hand kept at the Museum of Fine Arts in Lille: Une Fête au Colisée (1789-90), several of these fashion victims representative of French fashion at the dawn of the revolution.