Rose-Adélaïde Ducreux

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A full-length portrait of a young woman standing at a harp, with the fingers of her left hand resting on the strings and her right hand resting on the frame. She is wearing an elaborate eighteenth-century gown and a gray wig. Behind the harp there is sheet music and a Greek vase arranged on a table draped in red cloth.

Self-Portrait with a Harp

1791
Rose-Adélaïde Ducreux, Self-Portrait with a Harp, 1791, Oil on canvas, 193 x 128.9 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Metropolitan Museum of Art

A three-quarters portrait of a young woman sitting at a table, turned away from the viewer but looking back directly over her right shoulder. Her hair is tied with a blue ribbon and on the other side of the table is an elaborate gold and black harp. She holds papers–perhaps sheet music– in her right hand.

Portrait of Marie Thérèse Diane Andrault (née Maignard de la Vaupalière, 1768–1790), Comtesse de Langeron

ca. 1790
Rose-Adélaïde Ducreux, Portrait of Marie Thérèse Diane Andrault (née Maignard de la Vaupalière, 1768–1790), Comtesse de Langeron, ca. 1790. Oil on canvas, 130.2 x 97.5 cm. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

A full-length portrait of an artist in a classical costume, holding an oval canvas and making a pastel portrait of a young woman. The artist looks out at the viewer with a smile, her curls spilling out from two blue ribbons. The setting features eighteenth-century furniture and an elaborate marble floor.

Portrait of the Artist

ca. 1799
Attributed to Rose-Adélaïde Ducreux or Adèle Romany, Portrait of the Artist, ca. 1799, Oil on canvas. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen.
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen

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