Portrait of Madame Antoine Crozat, Marquise du Châtel, née Marguerite le Gendre d'Armeny (1670-1742), half-length, seated, in a lace trimmed yellow and white dress and a bonnet, a fan in her right hand

This picture can be compared with Aved's three-quarter-length portrait of Madame Crozat (1741, Montpellier, Musée Fabre), in which the sitter is shown at a table with her tapestry work. Levey's description of the Montpellier picture, in which 'Aved conveys something of the sitter's characacter - including a lack of vanity - and her ordinary existence', is equally applicable to the present portrait (M. Levey, Painting and Sculpture in France 1700-1789, New Haven and London, 1993, pp. 193-4, pl. 199).