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Jeune Suissesse de Brientz (La Batelière de Brienz) by Joseph-Désiré Court (French) - Oil on canvas / 1839 - Louvre Museum (Paris, France) #womeninart #oilpainting #frenchart #portraitofawoman #artwork #portrait #art #louvre #artwork #fineart #thelouvre #court #joseph-desirecourt #womensart #swiss
This painting was repatriated to France by the first convoy from Düsseldorf, on March 4, 1948 and then awarded to the Louvre Museum by the Office of Private Property and Interests in 1951. It features a young Swiss woman sitting with a large plate of fruits in her lap while wearing an elegant pink gown with red ribbon at the waist, puffy white sleeves, tight black bodice and collar with lace over the chest. She wears a thin straw hat with matching red ribbon in her black hair that is blowing in the wind. Both the hat and the dress have a matching pink flower. She sits in a village landscape with full clouds behind her.
January 6, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Femme à mi-corps, couchée sur un divan (Half-length Woman Lying on a Couch) by Joseph-Désiré Court (French) Oil on canvas / 1829 - Musée Fabre (Montpellier, France) #womeninart #odalisque #Joseph-DésiréCourt #womensart #fineart #MuséeFabre #art #oilpainting #artwork #frenchart #academicism #painting
This beautiful woman, casually lying on a couch, is very different from the standard odalisque formula of the era. She presents a more graceful genre that betrays the intimacy of the painter with his model. Many art historians identify her as Court's wife. Her oval face, lightly-rouge lips, rosy cheeks, bare right shoulder, and slight twist of her long brunette hair with her left hand sporting a gold ring on her wedding finger all support her expression of connivance or intimate familiarity with the artist. She is draped in warm colors under a refined blue blanket exposing just a hint of the white gown she wears while laying atop multiple lush cardinal pillows. After the death of Court in 1866, collector Alfred Bruyas acquired the portrait to exemplify the "characteristic of the painting of his time and the manner of the author." Bruyas appreciated Court's painting so much that when his gallery published a catalog in 1876, he wrote of Court, "His best portrait is the woman with half-body, with blue drapery, lying on a couch, her type of predilection. You have to love someone to do something beautiful.” A student of Baron Gros, Joseph Désiré Court is an example of a transitional painter, shared between the school of David and that of Ingres, between the ancient heroes and the refined portraits of his contemporaries. After many large Herculean paintings in his early years that received a mixed reception at times, Court focused on portraiture and gender figures including official commissions from the French "July Monarchy" as well as the Russian court.
January 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM