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Article
British press reaction to the London exhibitions of David, Lefèvre, Wicar and Lethière
05/2025 | 1466 | 167
Pages: 450–59
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Wine, Humphrey (Wine, Humphrey)
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1. Emperor Napoleon in his study at the Tuileries, by Jacques-Louis David. 1812. Oil on canvas, 205 by 127.5 cm. (Musée national du château, Fontainebleau; Bridgeman Images).
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10. The raft of the Medusa, by Théodore Géricault. 1819. Oil on canvas, 491 by 716 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
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11. Homer singing his Iliad at the gates of Athens, by Guillaume-Guillon Lethière. 1814. Oil on canvas, 198.1 by 246.4 cm. (Nottingham City Museums and Galleries; Bridgeman Images).
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2. Napoleon crossing the Alps, by the studio of Jacques-Louis David. 1803. Oil on canvas, 268.5 by 224.3 cm. (Château de Versailles; Bridgeman Images).
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3. Portrait of Pope Pius VII and Cardinal Caprara, by Jacques-Louis David. c.1805. Oil on canvas, 138.1 by 96 cm. (Philadelphia Museum of Art; Bridgeman Images).
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4. A full-length portrait of Napoleon after his return from Moscow, by Thomas Goff Lupton after George Clint. 1819. Engraving, 44.9 by 31.4 cm. (British Museum, London).
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5. Bonaparte and General Berthier at the Battle of Marengo, by Joseph Boze, with Robert Lefevre and Carle Vernet. 1800–01. Oil on canvas, 289 by 232 cm. (Musée de l’Armée, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
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6. Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon and the coronation of Empress Josephine on December 2, 1804, by Jacques-Louis David. 1808–22. Oil on canvas, 610 by 971 cm. (Chateau de Versailles).
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6. Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon and the coronation of Empress Josephine on December 2, 1804, by Jacques-Louis David. 1808–22. Oil on canvas, 610 by 971 cm. (Chateau de Versailles).
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7. Resurrection of the son of the widow of Naim, by Jean-Baptiste Wicar. 1816. Oil on canvas, 5.7 by 9 m. (Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille).
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8. Brutus condemning his sons to death, by Guillaume Guillon-Lethière. 1811. Oil on canvas, 59.4 cm by 99.1 cm. (Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown MA).
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9. The death of Virginia, by Guillaume-Guillon Lethière. 1828. Oil on canvas, 4.58 by 7.88 m. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
Book Review
The Hub of the World: Art in Eighteenth-Century Rome
05/2024 | 1454 | 166
Pages: 515–518
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Zafran, Eric (Zafran, Eric)
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The Hub of the World: Art in Eighteenth-Century Rome Edited by Alan P. Wintermute, with contributions by Edgar Peters Bowron, Alvar González-Palacios, J. Patrice Marandel and Melissa Beck Lemke. 360 pp. incl. numerous col. + b. & w. ills. (Nicholas Hall, New York, 2023), $65. ISBN 978–1–7326492–5–5. | :
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10. Study for St Louis Gonzago, by Pompeo Batoni. 1744. Red and white chalk on paper, 19.3 by 7.1 cm. (Private collection).
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11. Two English gentlemen before the Arch of Constantine, by Anton von Maron. 1767. Oil on canvas, 137 by 100.5 cm. (Private collection)
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9. Caricature of Pompeo Batoni, by Giuseppe Cades. c.1780. Pen and ink on paper, 11.3 by 8.3 cm. (Philadelphia Museum of Art).
Book Review
Hersilia’s Sisters: Jacques-Louis David, Women, and the Emergence of Civil Society in Post-Revolution France
01/2024 | 1450 | 166
Pages: 100–101
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Bordes, Philippe (Bordes, Philippe; Bordes, Phillipe)
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Hersilia’s Sisters: Jacques-Louis David, Women, and the Emergence of Civil Society in Post-Revolution France By Norman Bryson. 352 pp. incl. 168 col. ills. (Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, 2023), £65. ISBN 978–1–60606–771–0. | :
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6. Henriette de Verninac, by Jacques-Louis David. 1798–99. Oil on canvas, 145.5 by 112 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Article
Girodet’s ‘Coriolanus taking leave of his family’ rediscovered
10/2023 | 1447 | 165
Pages: 1094–1105
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Wile, Aaron (Wile, Aaron)
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1. Coriolanus taking leave of his family, by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson. 1786. Oil on canvas, 114 by 146 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington).
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10. Horatius killing his sister Camilla, by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy- Trioson. 1785. Oil on canvas, 111 by 148 cm. (Musée Girodet, Montargis).
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11. Oath of the Horatii, by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson Girodet after Jacques-Louis David. 1786. Oil on canvas, 130.2 by 166.7 cm. (Toledo Museum of Art).
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12. Death of Socrates, by Jacques-Louis David. 1787. Oil on canvas, 129.5 by 196.2 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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13. Detail of Fig.1, showing the pose of Coriolanus and his eldest son.
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14. Detail of Fig.1, showing the altar to the household gods.
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15. Scene from a deluge, by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson Girodet. 1806. Oil on canvas, 494 by 341 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; Photo Josse; Bridgeman Images).
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16. Intervention of the Sabine women, by Jacques-Louis David. 1799. Oil on canvas, 385 by 522 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
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2. Coriolanus leaving his family to fight against his fatherland, by Henri de Favanne. 1725. Oil on canvas, 97.5 by 130 cm. (Musée d’Auxerre; akg-images).
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3. Coriolanus taking leave of his wife to join the Volscians in their attack upon Rome, by Étienne Aubry. c.1780. Oil on canvas, 146.7 by 196.2 cm. (Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley).
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4. Coriolanus entreated by his mother, by Nicolas Poussin. c.1650. Oil on canvas, 112 by 198.5 cm. (Musée Poussin, Les Andelys).
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6. Detail from Roman album no.8, by Jacques-Louis David. 1775–80. Pen and black ink, brown and grey wash, black chalk, some red chalk and chalk wash on paper, mounted to album leaves, 48.7 by 33 cm. (Morgan Library and Museum, New York).
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7. Detail of Fig.1, showing the pose of Veturia.
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8. Coriolanus taking leave of his wife. Last quarter of the eighteenth century. Oil on canvas, 125 by 169 cm. (Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Cholet; RMN-Grand Palais; Gérard Blot).
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9. Horatius killing his sister Camilla, by Jacques-Louis David. 1781. Ink on paper, 27.5 by 38.7 cm. (Albertina, Vienna; akg-images).
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5. Detail of Brutus. Roman, 4th century BC. Bronze, height 69 cm. (Capitoline Museums, Rome; photograph Luisa Ricciarini; Bridgeman Images).
Article
Rejection and revenge: Adolphe Willette, Jacques-Louis David and Henri Gervex
12/2022 | 1437 | 164
Pages: 1210-1215
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Thomson, Richard (Thomson, Richard)
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1. Parce Domine, parce populo tuo!, by Adolphe Willette. 1884. Oil on canvas, 200 by 390 cm. (Musée de Montmartre, Paris; © Archives Charmet / Bridgeman Images).
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2. A meeting of the painting jury, by Henri Gervex. 1885. Oil on canvas, 299 by 419 cm. (Musée d’Orsay, Paris; © Peter Willi / Bridgeman Images).
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3. The tennis court oath, by Jacques-Louis David. 1791. Graphite, pen and sepia wash heightened with white on paper, 65 by 105 cm. (Musée national du Château de Versailles; Bridgeman Images).
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4. The painting jury – a sketch of the painting by Gervex after Jacques-Louis David, by Adolphe Willette. Photomechanical process, 31 by 45 cm. (Le Chat noir, 2nd May 1885).
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5. Masthead of Le Chat Noir, no.1 (14th January 1882), by Henri Pille. (Private collection).
Exhibition Review
Jacques-Louis David: Radical Draftsman
05/2022 | 1430 | 164
Pages: 492-495
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Padiyar, Satish (Padiyar, Satish)
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Jacques-Louis David: Radical Draftsman Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 17th February–15th May | :
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1. The death of Socrates, by Jacques-Louis David. c.1786. Pen and black ink over black chalk with touches of brown ink on paper, 27.9 by 41.6 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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2. Allegory of the revolution in Nantes, by Jacques-Louis David. c.1789–90. Pen and black ink, brush and grey wash and graphite on paper, 30.4 by 43.9 cm. (Musée d’Arts de Nantes; exh. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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3. Jeanbon Saint-André, by Jacques-Louis David. 1795. Pen and black ink and black and grey wash, heightened with pale yellow wash and white gouache, over graphite on paper, diameter 18.2 cm. (Art Institute of Chicago; exh. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Article
The Lavoisiers by David: technical findings on portraiture at the brink of revolution
09/2021 | 1422 | 163
Pages: 780-791
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Centeno, Silvia A. (Centeno, Silvia A.)
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Mahon, Dorothy (Mahon, Dorothy)
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Pullins, David (Pullins, David)
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1. Antoine-Laurent and Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze Lavoisier, by Jacques-Louis David. 1788. Oil on canvas, 259.7 by 194.8 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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10. Chapeau à la Tarare, by A.-B. Duhamel Jean-Florent Defraine. 1787. Hand-coloured engraving, 17.9 by 19.9 cm. Detail of plate 2 from La Magasin des Modes Nouvelles 36 (10th November 1787). (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
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10. Chapeau à la Tarare, by A.-B. Duhamel Jean-Florent Defraine. 1787. Hand-coloured engraving, 17.9 by 19.9 cm. Detail of plate 2 from La Magasin des Modes Nouvelles 36 (10th November 1787). (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
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11. Marie-Antoinette and her children, by Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun. 1787. Oil on canvas, 275 by 216.5 cm. (Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, Versailles).
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12. Louis-Elisabeth de France and her son, by Adélaïde Labille- Guiard. 1788. Oil on canvas, 275 by 160 cm. (Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, Versailles).
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13. Detail of Salon of 1787, by Pietro Antoni Martini. 1787. Etching with engraving, 35.6 by 50.2 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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14. Alphonse Leroy, by Jacques-Louis David. 1783. Oil on canvas, 72 by 91 cm. (Musée Fabre, Montpellier).
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15. The Chabanel family, by Antoine Vestier. 1786. Oil on canvas, 165.3 by 220.5 cm. (Private collection).
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16. An architect and his family, by Marguerite Gérard. c.1788–89. Oil on panel, 30.5 by 24.1 cm. (Baltimore Museum of Art).
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17. The poorly defended rose, by Michel Garnier. 1789. Oil on canvas, 46.2 by 37.6. (Minneapolis Institute of Art).
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18. Experiments in respiration, by Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze Lavoisier. c.1790. Graphite, pen and ink on paper. (Private collection).
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2. Infra-red reflectogram (IRR) of Fig.1. (Department of Paintings Conservation, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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3. Combined elemental distribution map for lead (white) and mercury (red) obtained by macro X-ray fluorescence (MA-XRF). (Department of Scientific Research, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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4. A line drawing, produced by tracing information obtained by IRR and XRF, suggesting the appearance of the portrait before J.-L. David made significant changes to the composition.
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5. Charles-Alexandre de Calonne, by Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun. 1784. Oil on canvas, 155.5 by 130.3 cm. (Royal Collection Trust; © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2021).
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6. Madame Élisabeth, by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard. 1787. Oil on canvas, 146.7 by 155 cm. (Private collection).
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7. Sketch for Charles-Roger, Prince de Bauffremont, by Adélaide Labille-Guiard. 1789–91. Oil on canvas, 34 by 23 cm. (Musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris).
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8. Baronne de Crussol Florensac, by Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun. 1785. Oil on canvas, 113.8 by 84 cm. (Musée des Augustins, Toulouse).
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9. Chapeau à la Basile, by A.-B. Duhamel Jean-Florent Defraine. 1787. Hand-coloured engraving, 18.2 by 10.2 cm. Detail of plate 3 from La Magasin des Modes Nouvelles 31 (20th September 1787). (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
Book Review
The Eighteenth-Century French Paintings (National Gallery Catalogues). By Humphrey Wine
11/2019 | 1400 | 161
Pages: 971-972
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Faroult, Guillaume (Faroult, Guillaume)
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The Eighteenth-Century French Paintings (National Gallery Catalogues) By Humphrey Wine. 632 pp. incl. 440 col. ills. (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2018), £75. ISBN 978–1–85709–338–4. | :
Book Review
Joseph-Benoît Suvée, 1743–1807: un artiste entre Bruges, Rome et Paris. By Sophie Join-Lambert and Anne Leclair
09/2019 | 1398 | 161
Pages: 788-789
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Bordes, Philippe (Bordes, Philippe; Bordes, Phillipe)
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5. Portrait of a man (Charles-Louis Trudaine de Montigny?), by Joseph-Benoît Suvée. 1794. Oil on canvas, 60 by 48.5 cm. (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours; photograph Dominique Couineau).
Article
François Gérard’s portraits of Alexandrine Émilie Brongniart
06/2019 | 1395 | 161
Pages: 482-487
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Galitz, Kathryn Calley (Galitz, Kathryn Calley)
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1. Alexandrine Émilie Brongniart, by François Gérard. 1795. Panel, 86.8 by 55.5 cm. (Private collection; photograph Julien Pepy).
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2. Detail of Fig.1, showing Gérard’s adjustment to a lock of hair on the sitter’s forehead. (Photograph Alice Panhard).
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3. Alexandrine Émilie Brongniart, by François Gérard. 1795. Canvas, 49.53 by 38.1 cm. (Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven CT).
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4. Alexandrine Émilie Brongniart, by Adolphe-Gustave Huot, after François Gérard. 1882. Engraving, 30 by 19.2 cm (image). (Cabinet des Estampes, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris).
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5. Mademoiselle Caroline Rivière, by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. 1806. Canvas, 100 by 70 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
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6. Cupid and Psyche, by François Gérard. 1798. Canvas, 186 by 132 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
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7. Alexandrine Émilie Brongniart, by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, after François Gérard. c. 1795. Pencil on paper, 8.2 by 5.9 cm. (Musée Ingres, Montauban).
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