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Portrait of Madame du Barry

Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet (French, 1731–1797)
After: François Hubert Drouais (French, 1727–1775)
about 1768-1785

Medium/Technique Etching and engraving
Dimensions Sheet: 39 × 32 cm (15 3/8 × 12 5/8 in.)
Platemark: 30.2 × 22.3 cm (11 7/8 × 8 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection
Accession Number65.2613
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné IFF 72, ii/ii; Le Blanc 92; Meyer 109, iii/iii
Marks Verso, lower center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
ProvenanceForsyth Wickes (b. 1876 – d. 1964), New York, Paris, Rhode Island; 1965, bequest of Forsyth Wickes to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 24, 1965)