Marie Leszczyńska with page boy and putti

The painting Marie Leszczyńska with page boy and putti was executed in 1726 by the French artist François Albert Stiémart, who was born in Fontainebleau in 1662 and died in Paris in 1744. It is an oil on canvas measuring 206.5 cm high by 147 cm wide. The work entered the French royal collection and was owned by Louis XV, who displayed it in the Grand cabinet de la Dauphine at the Palace of Versailles.

Today it remains in the Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, bearing the inventory numbers MV 3754, INV 6261 and B 2258.

The painting is held at the Palace of Versailles, displayed in the Grand cabinet de la Dauphine, part of the Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon. Its inventory numbers are MV 3754, INV 6261, and B 2258. Measuring 206.5 cm in height and 147 cm in width, it is an oil on canvas portrait of Marie Leszczyńska. No exhibition history is recorded in the available sources. The work remains in the museum's permanent collection.

The painting entered the royal collection under Louis XV and was displayed in the Grand cabinet de la Dauphine at Versailles []. Contemporary inventories list it alongside other portraits of the queen’s household, reflecting the diplomatic emphasis on familial alliances within the French court []. Modern scholarship situates the work within the broader decorative programme commissioned for the Dauphine’s apartments, linking it to the decorative trends of early to mid-eighteenth-century French portraiture that blended courtly realism with idealized grandeur [].

François Albert Stiémart’s 1726 oil portrait presents Marie Leszczyńska in a cultivated garden setting. The queen is shown in an elaborate brown gown with lace‑trimmed sleeves, holding a fan and wearing a leafy diadem. A young page boy in red, bearing a basket of fruit, and a servant with a floral basket complete the composition, which now hangs in the Palace of Versailles.