Would this represent his mood or his generous temperament?
This young woman wears a blue dress and a blue ribbon tied in her hair. In his right hand is an object whose handle is made of silver and mother-of-pearl.
19th Century
France
Oil on canvas depicting a young man against a landscape background.
This young man is probably the young Charles Beauclerk (1670 – 1726), the first Duke of Saint-Albans, son of King Charles II and his mistress Nell Gwynne.
18th century
English School
Surroundings of the painter Godfrey Kneller (1646-1723)
Miniature on ivory
Velvet and brass frame
Late 18th Early 19th century
France
A first differentiation between the clothes of boys and girls will take place in the 18th century.
In the old days, children’s fashion was the same for boys and girls.
The Ouled Naïl tribe is a semi-nomadic tribe that is still located today in the mountain ranges of central Algeria. Around 1830 during the colonial era, the tribe fascinated artists. Many stories tell of the beauty of these women.
The portrait of a child became a popular genre in Europe in the 16th century, it was during the Age of Enlightenment that it developed in France. However, the petite models are still often subject to the codes of the official portrait, showing them in their most cultured aspect.
Moreover, the child is never alone if it is not the exceptional child who is a royal child or the Child Jesus.
The canvas represented is of high quality and extremely rare because children are represented with toys.
This canvas can bring us closer to the realities and their daily life in the 18th century
On the left side of the painting, signature 1775 and illegible signature
Oil on canvas
France 1775
Baroque painting representing the portrait of a child in royal dress.
The crimson scarf that goes from the shoulder to the hip is a fashion of the royal court of Spain in the 17th century.
Frame carved in gilded wood
Follower of Velasquez (1599-1660)
Late XVII Spain
Oil on canvas depicting a young woman with bare shoulders against a landscape background.
Frame carved in gilded wood
Empire
Early 19th century
These pastels represent two sisters.
Louis Vigée (1715-1767) is a French pastel artist specializing in portraits, member of the Academy of Saint Luke. He had two children, including the famous portrait painter Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun.
18th century
Gilded wooden frame,
France
Oil on canvas depicting a woman with a haircut garcette.
This hairstyle made fashionable by Anne of Austria in the 1620s will become an essential hairstyle until 1680.
Late 17th century,
France