# Family Portrait [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [DROUAIS, François-Hubert]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 244 x 195 cm ## Commentary The portrait depicts the unidentified members of a family decked out in finery that denotes their wealth, rank, and relatively high social status: a mother and father in their early thirties and their six- or seven-year-old daughter. The theme of a mother and daughter performing the rituals of the morning toilette was fairly common in eighteen-century French portraiture. Jean-Marc Nattier exploited if in his <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/n/nattier/marc/marsolli.html'\)" href="/html/n/nattier/marc/marsolli.html">Madame Marsollier and her Daughter,</a> which was sent to the Salon of 1750 and surely had an impact on Drouais. The painter goes a step further than his predecessor by introducing the father into the otherwise feminine environment. It has been claimed more than once that Drouais borrowed features of this composition from the <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/b/boucher/1/morning.html'\)" href="/html/b/boucher/1/morning.html">Milliner,</a> painted by one of his masters, François Boucher for a member of the Swedish royal family. ## Related artworks - [Jeanne Bécu, Comtesse du Barry]() - [Madame de Pompadour]() - [Madame Drouais, Wife of the Artist]() - [The Children of the Duc de Bouillon]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()