1775
Pastel on blue paper, 46 x 38 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris
This portrait is the pendant of Chardin's Self-Portrait with an Eyeshade. The two portraits were exhibited together at the salon of the Académie Royale in 1775. Marguerite Pouget (1707-1791) was the artist's second wife. Bereft of his first in 1735, he remarried this affluent widow in 1744, who helped him in his charge as treasurer of the Académie and in maintaining his correspondence.
