Just a post to highlight Largillière's really remarkable use of luscious, saturated color*. (Plus a few irresistible, not-actually-color-related details.)
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| Marie-Thérèse Blonel d'Haraucourt, duchesse de Phalaris (in old age called "Mère Jezabel" due to her overuse of cosmetics), as Flora, circa 1720. |
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| Marc-Conrad Buisson, circa 1710. |
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| Catherine Bielinska, baronne de Besenval, circa 1716. |
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| Hugues Desnotz, échevin (alderman) of the city of Paris, 1704. |
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| Portrait of a Lady, circa 1710. |
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| Jeanne-Elisabeth de Beauharnais, 1719. |
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| Madame Claude-Joseph Geoffroy, 1725. |
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| Marie-Elisabeth-Desirée de Chantemerle, comtesse de Hergh, 1715. |
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| Marguerite de Sève, wife of Barthélemy-Jean-Claude Pupil, 1729. |
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| Norbert Roettiers, circa 1715. |
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| Portrait of a Lady, circa 1710-20. |
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| Portrait of a Lady (sometimes said to be Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, madame de Lambert, marquise de Saint-Bris), circa 1710. |
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| Jeune homme inconnu, circa 1695. |
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| The marquise de Fortia, 1726. |
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| Portrait of a Lady, possibly Jeanne de Robais, or the Duchess of Beaufort, circa 1714. |
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| Portrait of a Lady, possibly madame Claude-Lambert de Thorigny, née Marie-Marguerite Bontemps, circa 1696. |
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| Portrait of a Lady, circa 1696. |
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| L'Artiste en tenue d'atelier (self-portrait), 1707. |
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| La Comédienne Marie-Anne de Châteauneuf, dite Mlle. Duclos, dans le rôle d'Ariane, 1712. |
* With the vagaries of color reproduction and the perversity of the internet, I can't
swear to the accuracy of the degree of saturation in some of the images....
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