Madame Sophie de France (1734-1782). Artist: François Hubert Drouais (French, Paris 1727-1775 Paris). Dimensions: 25 5/8 x 20 7/8 in. (65.1 x 53 cm). Date: 1762.
Madame Sophie was the sixth of eight daughters of Louis XV of France. Timid and self-effacing, she lived among members of the royal family at the châteaux of Bellevue and Versailles until her early death at forty-seven. She wears a magnificent dress of striped and flowered damask with a hair ornament of flowers and straps of the same material.