Marie Adélaïde de Savoie Duchesse de Bourgogne
Marie Adélaïde de Savoie (1685 – 1712), Duchesse de Bourgogne c1710 by French Painter Pierre Gobert (1662 – 1744); who incorporated mythological themes into his paintings.
This is a beautiful portrait of Marie Adélaïde de Savoie (the mother of Louis XV); adorned with blue, white, pink and red flowers in her hair, and exquisitely illuminated with nice warm tones.
She is wearing a white long sleeve dress with a single strap that sits at the center of the bust line, going over her right shoulder and connecting to the back of the dress.
On top of that is a large pink cloth that contains a large diamond broach in a gold setting that rest on her outstretched left arm; that reaches from around her back to her right shoulder and over her left arm resting on her lap.
On her outstretched right arm we can see a gold armband with what appear to be 7 gemstones; and around her waist is a gold color sash.
This is a retouched digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image.
Info Below Derived From Wikipedia.org and The Met Museum
Pierre was born in Fontainebleau (a commune in the metropolitan area of Paris, France), to the sculptor Jean II Gobert.
During the reign of Louis XIV he became the preferred painter of the great ladies of the court as evidenced by the large collection of portraits that he executed during that time; with Marie Adélaïde, the mother of Louis XV, being one that sat for him on more than one occasion.
On December 31, 1701 Gobert entered the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture as a full member and between 1701 and 1704 sent portraits of the members of the royal family to The Salon for exhibition.
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