Keywords: Mme Louise-Elisabeth with her two year old son.jpg Painting Creator Adélaïde Labille-Guiard The portrait of Madame Louise-Elisabeth of France Infante d'Espagne Duchesse de Parme was commissioned by King Louis XVI's aunts and it shows one of the daughters of Louis XV with her son The shadows on her face and on the wall in back of her may simbolize death in fact she died of a smallpox at the age thirty-two Completed in 1788 one year after the commission the picture idealizes its subject who stands on a terrace in a relaxed graceful pose dressed in the low-cut and elaborately decorated costume popular in late eighteen-century 1788 Oil on canvas cm 272 160 Institution Versailles Antichambre de la reine http //www ladyreading net/labille-guiard/details html 000PE007418 other versions <gallery> Louise Elisabeth de France - Adelaide Labille-Guiard png Madame Elisabeth par Guyard jpg </gallery> PD-old-100 DEFAULTSORT 1788; Louise-Élisabeth of France son Adélaïde Labille-Guiard 18th-century portrait paintings in the Musée national du Château de Versailles Antichambre de la reine du Château de Versailles Mme Louise-Elisabeth Princess Louise Élisabeth of France Ferdinand Duke of Parma 1780s dresses 1788 oil on canvas paintings in France Portrait 1788 portrait paintings from France 18th-century family portraits of royalty 18th-century oil portraits of boys at full length 18th-century oil portraits of standing women at full length 18th-century portrait paintings with parrots Feathered headdresses in art female Females with black dresses in art Mother and child in art Portrait paintings of women wearing hats Portrait paintings of women with birds Portraits of mothers and sons Portrait paintings with the balcony Portraits with 2 persons Posthumous portraits Robe à l'anglaise Salon of 1789 Women facing left in art |