Jacques-Louis David, 1792 - Madame de Pastoret and Her Son - fine art print

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The volatile events of the early years of the French Revolution make it impossible to determine with certainty the date of Jacques-Louis David’s warm, fresh portrait of Adélaïde de Pastoret. They also probably account for the portrait’s unfinished state. David, a renowned Neoclassical painter, was at the time an ardent revolutionary; Madame de Pastoret was the wife of a staunch royalist. The sittings must have occurred after the birth, early in 1791, of her son, who is portrayed asleep by her side, and before her brief imprisonment during the Reign of Terror in 1792. Here David completed the stippled, almost monochromatic underpainting but did not create the stark, enamel-smooth surface that is characteristic of his finished paintings. He did not even get far enough to place a needle and thread in Madame de Pastoret’s hand. Nevertheless, this large portrait of unaffected domesticity captures the youthful mother with charm as well as dignity and displays David’s skill as a portraitist. Objecting to David’s revolutionary ideals, Madame de Pastoret (who became the Marquise de Pastoret in 1817) refused the painting during the artist’s lifetime. After David’s death, she had her son, by then an adult, purchase the portrait from the artist’s estate.

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This painting was created by the neoclassicist artist Jacques-Louis David in 1792. Besides, this work of art is in the the Art Institute Chicago's collection. With courtesy of Art Institute Chicago (public domain license).Creditline of the artwork: . Further, the alignment of the digital reproduction is portrait with an image ratio of 1 : 1.4, which implies that the length is 29% shorter than the width. Jacques-Louis David was a male politician, painter from France, whose style can be attributed primarily to Neoclassicism. The Neoclassicist artist lived for 77 years - born in the year 1748 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France and passed away in 1825.

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