Portrait of F. Louise de Keroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth & Aubigny - Gascars, Henri (French painter, 1634 or 1635-1701) (My University, 2008)
Henri Gascars (also Gascar/Gascard) is a French portrait painter who travelled extensively throughout Europe. His sitters are often depicted as mythological deities, set against a marble column, drapery and landscape. The present portrait depicts Louise de Keroualle, dispatched to England by Louis XIV to be the mistress of King Charles II.
Keywords: De Ke?roualle, Louise-Rene?e, Duchess of Portsmouth and Aubigny, 1649-1734; Duchess; Portrait; Gentry; Nobility; Nudity