LOUIS GABRIEL BLANCHET (1705-1772) Prince Henry Benedict Stuart (c.1739) Oil on canvas (98 x 73 cm) Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Royal Collection To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "open in a new tab" This beautiful portrait and its pair, the one of his older brother Prince Charles Edward Stuart, are arguably Blanchet's most …
Tag: 18th century French painting
Prince Charles Edward Stuart
LOUIS GABRIEL BLANCHET (1705-1772) Prince Charles Edward Stuart (1737-38) Oil on canvas (98 x 75.5 cm) Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Royal Collection To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Very little is known about Louis Gabriel Blanchet, a gifted portraitist who spent his professional career in Rome. He was …
Self-portrait
MAURICE QUENTIN DE LA TOUR (1704-1788) Self-portrait (1751) Pastel on paper Amiens, Musee de Picardie To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Maurice Quentin de La Tour showed at a very early age outstanding aptitudes for drawing. At the age of 18, having decided to become an artist, he …
Before the Ball
JEAN-FRANCOIS DE TROY (1679-1752) Before the Ball (1735) Oil on canvas (82 x 63 cm) Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" De Troy was a very talented and versatile artist; he was an equally competent draughtsman, easel and fresco painter and tapestry designer. …
The Laundress
JEAN BAPTISTE GREUZE (1725-1805) The Laundress (1761) Oil on canvas (40.5 x 32 cm) Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" During the last half of the 18th century, Greuze was the most famous and successful exponent of genre painting in France. He normally …
Madame Adelaide
ADELAIDE LABILLE-GUIARD (1749-1803) Portrait of Madame Adelaide de France (1787) Oil on canvas 271 x 194 cm Chateau de Versailles To enlarge the image, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Adélaide Labille was born in Paris, the youngest of eight children. Her father was a haberdasher who owned a shop named A la …
Augustin Pajou
ADELAIDE LABILLE-GUIARD (1749-1803) Portrait of the sculptor Augustin Pajou (1783) Pastel on paper: 72 x 63 cm Musée du Louvre Adélaide Labille was born in Paris, the youngest of eight children. Her father was a haberdasher who owned a shop named A la Toilette; by a curious coincidence, the future Madame du Barry worked in …
A mysterious Gentleman
FRANCOIS-ANDRE VINCENT (1746-1816) Portrait of a gentleman (maybe Monsieur Baillon) Oil on canvas 117 x 89,5 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam To enlarge the image, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" It gives me a great deal of pleasure to rescue a fine artist from oblivion. This is the case of François-André Vincent, who …
Portrait of a Woman
JOHANN JULIUS HEINSIUS (1740-1812) Portrait of a Woman (1781) Canvas 65,5 x 54 cm Private collection To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Very little is known about this German portraitist, he has been erroneously confused with his elder brother Johann Ernst Heinsius (1731-1794); the confusion still persists to …
The Four Times of Day
CLAUDE JOSEPH VERNET (1714-1789): Morning and Night (c. 1757) Oil on copper (29,5 x 43,5 cm) Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide To enlarge the images, right-click on them on open in a new tab “It would be difficult to cite, before M. Vernet, a painter who has understood as well as he, the …
Old Masters 