Francois Drouais Comte and Chevalier de Choiseul Portrait Art Print
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Archival quality art print of the Comte and Chevalier de Choiseul, painted in oil on canvas in 1758 by French Rococo master François-Hubert Drouais. The standing boy with a hurdy-gurdy on his back is Marie Gabriel Florent Auguste, Comte de Choiseul Beaupré (1752–1817); beside him, his younger brother Michel Félix Victor, Chevalier de Choiseul Daillecourt (1754–1815), points to a peep show box. Both were cousins to the celebrated Duc de Choiseul, foreign minister to King Louis XV. Drouais costumes the boys as Savoyards — the itinerant workers from Savoy who wandered France performing at street fairs — suggesting filial devotion and humble virtue, reinforced by the presence of a faithful dog at their side. Yet their garments are the finest velvet with gold buttons, a knowing contradiction that makes this one of the more playful and layered aristocratic portraits of the French Rococo. Famous People Art Print #50
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