Jacques-Louis David’s portrait of Anne-Marie-Louise Thélusson, Countess of Sorcy was painted in 1790 at the beginning of the French Revolution and David, a supporter of the revolution, paints his sitter in simple clothing wrapped in a cowl.
This shows Madame Thélusson as a simple citizen despite her title, in a new world that was seeing old noble privileges rapidly disappear. David painted a number of portraits in 1790 of the French upper class.
Jacques-Louis David’s Anne-Marie-Louise Thélusson, Countess of Sorcy is in the Neue Pinakothek in Munich, Germany.
