Jean-Antoine Watteau’s Pierrot is of famous clown Pierrot in the 17th century. Originally known simply as ‘Gilles’ – the generic term for ‘clown’ in French, recent research has identified that the character in the picture is in fact of Pierrot. Pierrot is a fictional character that was popular in the late 17th century and featured …
This Portrait of Jacques Cazotteby Jean Baptiste Perronneau is in the traditional French style of portraiture, however, is intriguingly informal with the sitter smiling and looking off to his right. It was painted sometime in the 1760s. The sitter is a French writer of poems and novels Jacques Cazotte, who some 30 years after being …
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Maurice Quentin de La Tour’s Portrait of Gabriel Bernard de Rieux, presented at the Salon of 1741 in France, is of President of the second count of inquiry of the Parliament of Paris, Gabriel Bernard de Riex (1676-1745). Interestingly the painting is actually made from several pieces of paper mounted onto the canvas itself. It …
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Portrait of James Christie is a 1778 portrait painting by English artist Thomas Gainsborough. Portrait of James Christie Analysis Thomas Gainsborough, at the height of his fame as a leading portraitist in England, paints James Christie, founder of the auction house Christie’s – which is still, along with Sotheby’s, one of the two major auction …
