Woman Showing Her Portrait

Woman Showing Her Portrait is a c.1790 genre painting by the French artist Louis-Léopold Boilly.

[2] A young woman displays her portrait for inspection by a group, traditionally believed to be family members although there is no evidence to support that.

[3] It may possibly have been commissioned by Boilly's friend the Avignon lawyer Calvet de Lapalun.

[5] It belonged in the early nineteenth century to the Russian diplomat and art collector Nikolay Yusupov who had visited France three times on diplomatic missions to Versailles in the eighteenth century and returned for a fourth visit in 1808-09 where he acquired many works by leading French painters.

[6] Today it is on display at the Dallas Museum of Art in Texas, as part of the collection lent by the Michael L. Rosenberg Foundation.