Artist/Maker
Aline Alaux
(French, 1813 – 1856)
Related person
Louis Billouart
(1704 - 1770)
Related person
Aline Alaux
(French, 1813 – 1856)
Louis Billouart, Chevalier de Kerlerec (1704-1770)
ca. 1850
Watercolor(?) on ivory
Overall: 3 5/8 x 3 in. ( 9.2 x 7.6 cm )
Gift of Thomas W. Streeter
1957.25
The subject of this portrait served as a captain in the French navy for twenty-five years before being appointed governor of Louisiana in 1753. The miniature was copied from a contemporary pastel portrait by an unidentified French artist (illustrated in Fortier, "A History of Louisiana," I, 1904, opp. p. 154). It is attributed to Aline Alaux because of its stylistic similarities with her signed miniature of Pierre de Rigaud.
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