1742, Jean-Marc Nattier, Portrait of Madame Bonnier de la Mosson as Diana (Constance-Gabrielle-Magdeleine du Monciel de Lauraille) -- Getty Museum (Los Angeles)
From the museum label: Nattier specialized in allegorical portraits, presenting his female sitters as ancient deities. Bonnier de la Mosson appears in the guise of Diana, goddess of the moon and the hunt, identified by the leopard skin and weapons worn over her contemporary linen chemise. In contrast to Jacques-André-Joseph Aved's depiction of a male sitter (also in this gallery) as an active intellectual working at home, Nattier adopted an idealized landscape and a fictive costume to convey the ideals of grace, refinement, and sensibility for French aristocratic women in the 1700s.
1742, Jean-Marc Nattier, Portrait of Madame Bonnier de la Mosson as Diana (Constance-Gabrielle-Magdeleine du Monciel de Lauraille) -- Getty Museum (Los Angeles)
From the museum label: Nattier specialized in allegorical portraits, presenting his female sitters as ancient deities. Bonnier de la Mosson appears in the guise of Diana, goddess of the moon and the hunt, identified by the leopard skin and weapons worn over her contemporary linen chemise. In contrast to Jacques-André-Joseph Aved's depiction of a male sitter (also in this gallery) as an active intellectual working at home, Nattier adopted an idealized landscape and a fictive costume to convey the ideals of grace, refinement, and sensibility for French aristocratic women in the 1700s.