Portrait of Catherine Coustard, Marquise of Castelnau, Wife of Charles-L?onor Aubry with Her Son L?onor, c. 1700, Nicolas de Largilli?re, French, 1656 - 1746, 53 1/4 x 40 3/4 in. (135.26 x 103.51 cm) (sight)70 1/2 x 58 x 5 in. (179.07 x 147.32 x 12.7 cm) (outer frame), Oil on canvas, France, 17th-18th century, Catherine Coustard (1673¡V1728), who came from a family of well-to-do cloth merchants in Paris, married into the Aubry family of wealthy middle-class civil servants and statesmen from Tours. Seated, smiling, with her son leaning across her lap, she¡¦s the picture of contentment. Her fortunes, always good, had just improved at the time this portrait was painted. Her father-in-law, after serving twenty years as secretary to the king, had recently been made a nobleman, a great step upward in family prestige that this picture commemorates.