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The sitter of this mythological portrait is Geneviève Anne Marie Moufle de la Thuilerie (d. 1763), the wife of Antoine Louis Le Fèvre de Caumartin, marquis de Saint-Ange (1725-1803). The husband was the impecunious heir to an old family of magistrates and royal administrators.
Nattier portrayed Madame de Caumartin as Hebe, the personification of eternal youth. Despite the disguise, the sitter is more a lady of the court of Versailles than a goddess of Mount Olympus. This representation was successful, Nattier painted a number of other high-born clients as Hebe.
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