Attrributed to Baron Antoine-Jean Gros
(1771–1835)
Exotic Beauty with Ibis, on the sticker of the frame inscribed “Virginie”, oil on canvas, 132 x 116 cm, framed, (W)
Before Antoine Jean Gros was accepted as a pupil of Jacques-Louis David in 1785, he had already been given his first lessons by his parents, the miniature painters Jean Antoine and Cécile Madeleine. From 1787, he was a student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
Due to the unstable political situation in France, he fled to Italy with the help of David. There, he was introduced to Napoleon, who commissioned the painting “Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa”, still exhibited in the Louvre to this day. Napoleon held Gros in high regard.
Although Gros preferred the upcoming romantic style he stayed, compelled to do so by David, true to the classical style and painted mythological and neoclassical works, a genre quickly becoming obsolete.
The enticing young woman represented in this painting, with her pearls and oriental fabrics, is an invitation to a journey in an exotic world, a testimony to the artist’s love for the romantic way. This painting shows signs of the later emerging Orientalist style.
Esperta: Dr. Christl Wolf
Dr. Christl Wolf
+43-1-515 60-377
19c.paintings@dorotheum.at
23.10.2014 - 18:00
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EUR 10.000,- a EUR 15.000,-
Attrributed to Baron Antoine-Jean Gros
(1771–1835)
Exotic Beauty with Ibis, on the sticker of the frame inscribed “Virginie”, oil on canvas, 132 x 116 cm, framed, (W)
Before Antoine Jean Gros was accepted as a pupil of Jacques-Louis David in 1785, he had already been given his first lessons by his parents, the miniature painters Jean Antoine and Cécile Madeleine. From 1787, he was a student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
Due to the unstable political situation in France, he fled to Italy with the help of David. There, he was introduced to Napoleon, who commissioned the painting “Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa”, still exhibited in the Louvre to this day. Napoleon held Gros in high regard.
Although Gros preferred the upcoming romantic style he stayed, compelled to do so by David, true to the classical style and painted mythological and neoclassical works, a genre quickly becoming obsolete.
The enticing young woman represented in this painting, with her pearls and oriental fabrics, is an invitation to a journey in an exotic world, a testimony to the artist’s love for the romantic way. This painting shows signs of the later emerging Orientalist style.
Esperta: Dr. Christl Wolf
Dr. Christl Wolf
+43-1-515 60-377
19c.paintings@dorotheum.at
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