Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson - Madame Jacques-Louis-Étienne Reizet [1823]


Returning to France after his years of study in Italy, Girodet (French, 1767 - 1824) broke with his master, Jacques-Louis David, to create a personal style that treated fanciful subjects with imaginative pictorial effects. In portraiture, however, Girodet remained true to the precepts he had learned in David's studio. 

Madame Reizet's husband was a prominent government official, and their son, Marie-Frédéric de Reiset, was curator of drawings and, later, of paintings at the Musée du Louvre. He ended his career as director of the French National Museums. Until recently, this canvas remained with the family. It is remarkably well preserved.

[Oil on canvas, 60.3 x 49.5 cm]
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