Jacques-Louis David, Portrait of Jean-Pierre Delahaye, 1815, 61 × 49 cm, Los Angeles, L.A. Cou
Jacques-Louis David, Portrait of Jean-Pierre Delahaye, 1815, 61 × 49 cm, Los Angeles, L.A. County Museum of Art (www.lacma.org), gift of The Ahmanson Foundation Delahaye, was a lawyer friend of the artist, who handled his affairs. Among other things, we know that he helped the painter sell some of his paintings in Paris after he had left for Brussels. The dignified air of the man is inspired by Roman Republican sculpted portraits, which David studied and admired in Rome. The simplicity of the portrait relates to the idea of nobility and virtue than in vogue. But David manages to make the man seem real, human, engaging, not distant. -- source link
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