Marie Francoise de La Cropte de St. Abre, Marquise d'Argence, 1744, Oil on canvas, 32 1/2 x 25 1/2 in. (82. 6 x 64. 8 cm), Paintings, Jean Marc Nattier (French, Paris 1685?1766 Paris), The marquise's name and the date are inscribed on the stretcher. In 1744, the year she sat for Nattier, she was married in Paris to Francois Achard Joumard Tison d'Argence (1719?1781), who descended from several families of great antiquity in Angouleme and Perigueux