https://emuseum.cornell.edu/internal/media/dispatcher/92666/fullJulie de la Rivière, Marquise de Lafayette (mother of Lafayette)47 3/8 x 35 inches (120.3 x 88.9 cm)Oil on canvasGift to Cornell University from Arthur H. Dean, Class of 1919, and Mary Marden Dean75.109.0010Three-quarter length portrait of Julie de la Riviere, Lafayette's mother as a young woman. She stands slightly turned to the right, and wears a lovely salmon (red?) colored robe a la francaise trimmed with blue ribbons and mink. Around the bodice are seashells and jewels. She wears a curved straw bonnet atop her powdered hair that is tied beneath her chin with a blue bow. She wears a deep blue caplet that is also trimmed with scallop shells. Across her chest is a wide blue ribbon that meets at her left hip and holds some sort of gord or horn. In her right hand she holds a staff that is surmounted by a single scallop shell, attached with another blue bow. At the lower-right, a small black dog jumps for her attention but Julie gazes out at the viewer, holding her skirts daintily with her left hand.Paintings21365211349French
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