Currently not on view
Portrait of Madame Leon de la Mejenelle,
1711
Nicolas Largilliere, French, 1656–1746
y338
Information
Title
Portrait of Madame Leon de la Mejenelle
Dates
1711
Maker
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
76 x 61.4 cm (29 15/16 x 24 3/16 in.)
frame: 99.5 x 85 x 8.3 cm (39 3/16 x 33 7/16 x 3 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of C. F. Williams, Class of 1896, through Miss F. L. Howland
Object Number
y338
Signatures
Signed and dated, verso: Peint par N. de Largillierre, 1711
Inscription
Culture
Type
Subject
- Fifth annual exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, May, 1815, (Philadelphia, PA: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts?, 1815)., p. 8; cat. no. 8
- Frank Jewett Mather Jr., "Painting", Art and archaeology 20, no. 3 (1925): p. 145-151., p. 148
- Louis Réau, L'art français aux États-Unis: ouvrage illustré de vingt-quatre planches hors texte, (Paris: H. Laurens, 1926). , p. 154; fig. 21
- Donald D. Egbert, Princeton Portraits, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1947)., fig. 222, pp 317-329