Portrait of Jean-Gabriel du Theil at the Signing of the Treaty of Vienna

Jacques André Joseph Aved depicted Jean-Gabriel du Theil at the Signing of the Treaty of Vienna. The painting dates from 1738 to 1740. Oil on canvas. Cleveland Museum of Art.

The painting captures a diplomatic moment. Theil, a French diplomat, is shown in a detailed interior, surrounded by documents and a globe.

Aved was known as ‘le Camelot’ and ‘Avet le Batave’. He was born in 1702 and orphaned young, raised in Amsterdam by a Dutch uncle.

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.89

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