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      Le Discret

      • Date de création1791
      • Dimensions92.0 x 80.0 cm

      Joseph Ducreux (1735 – 1802)

      Joseph Ducreux : Découvrez le talentueux peintre français connu pour ses portraits expressifs et surtout pour ses portraits innovants, notamment les œuvres emblématiques où il utilise une nouvelle approche du visage humain.

      By the time the French Revolution broke out in 1789, Joseph Ducreux already had a thriving portrait practice in Paris. In 1774 he had been appointed official court portraitist to Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette. In the wake of the Revolution, he was forced to find new patrons and reinvent himself as a relevant figure in a vastly different political and cultural milieu. In this self-portrait, Le Discret (or The Silence), exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1791, the artist raises his finger to his pursed lips, urging the viewer to be silent. Apparently influenced by contemporary theories of physiognomy, he depicted himself in a range of exaggerated gestures and displaying various emotions and facial expressions. By showing himself yawning, laughing, crying, and pointing a mocking finger at the viewer, Ducreux engaged directly with his audience in a manner that was unusual for the time.
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