Portrait of the Comte de Vaudreuil is an oil on canvas portrait painting by the French artist François-Hubert Drouais, from 1758. It is held in the National Gallery, in London, having been acquired in 1927.
It depicts the young aristocrat and soldier Joseph Hyacinthe François de Paule de Rigaud, Comte de Vaudreuil. The eighteen-year old came from the French colony of Saint-Domingue, in the Caribbean, where his father, the Marqis de Vaudreuil, served as governor. He is dressed in a very elegant attire, and his gloves and tricorn can be seen laid in the chair, behind him. The young nobleman is shown pointing at Saint-Domingue on a map.
Vaudreuil served in the French Army during the Seven Years' War and the year of the painting took part in the Battle of Rossbach. Probably as a reminder of that, some armor can be seen at his feet. He was later a prominent courtier under Louis XVI, in the years before the French Revolution.
In 1784 Vaudreuil was also painted by ÃÂlisabeth Vigée Le Brun, a work now in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.