Entourage Of Jean Ranc (1674-1735) - Portrait Of A Spanish Court Lady

- Oil on canvas. The natural grace of Jean Ranc for the portraits he composed for the Spanish court gives the sensation of finding himself facing ballet dancers, and not characters who are members of or attached to the Spanish royal family. This portrait closely follows his most obvious aesthetic postulates, as well as the study of the costume, perfectly compatible with the Spanish royal fashion typical of the time of Philip V, and of the landscape, the Sierra de Guadarrama, traditional backdrop of the effigies of the Spanish monarchy, confirm the proximity of the work with the Montpellier artist, whose school expanded thanks to his participation in the founding of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts as part of the reform program of the Bourbons from 1726. The composition of the painting depends on the portrait that Ranc made for the Queen of Spain, as the wife of the son of Philip V, Louis I of Spain, Luisa Isabel d'Orléans. - Unframed image dimensions: 74 x 100 cm / 82 x 109 cm with a beautiful custom frame from the mid-19th century. - Comes from a private collection in Madrid. - Good condition. Minimal defects. The fabric was doubled in the mid-20th century by the previous owner in an approved restoration workshop in Madrid.