Portrait of Alphonse Leroy
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| Artist | Jacques-Louis David |
| Year | 1783 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 72 cm × 91 cm (28 in × 36 in) |
| Location | Musée Fabre, Montpellier |
Portrait of Alphonse Leroy is a 1783 oil-on-canvas portrait of doctor and man-midwife Alphonse Leroy by the French Neoclassical artist Jacques-Louis David. It is now in the Musée Fabre in Montpellier, which bought it in 1829.
The painting shows its subject looking towards the spectator and leaning on a closed copy of Hippocrates' Morbi mulierum, a work on women's illnesses. On the desk is a 'lampe à quinquet', invented by Leroy himself. Together the lamp and book make reference to Cesare Ripa's Iconologia, which states these are the attributes of a study.
The naturalistic attention to detail and its bright tonality show how David was influenced by Flemish painters during his 1781 stay in Flanders. One of his pupils, Jean-François Garneray, assisted in painting the hands and fabrics. The painting was first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1783.
See also
[edit | edit source]Bibliography (in French)
[edit | edit source]- Antoine Schnapper, David : Témoin de son temps, Fribourg, Office du Livre, 1980 [détail des éditions] (Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).)
- Antoine Schnapper (ed.) and Arlette Sérullaz, Jacques-Louis David 1748-1825 : catalogue de l'exposition rétrospective Louvre-Versailles 1989-1990, Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux, 1989 (Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).)
- Luc de Nanteuil, David, Paris, Cercle d'Art, coll. « les grands peintres », 1987 (Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).)
- Régis Michel and Marie-Catherine Sahut, David : L'art et le politique, Paris, Gallimard, coll. « Découvertes Gallimard / Arts » (nº 46), 1988 (Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).)
- Sophie Monneret, David et le néoclassicisme, Paris, Terrail, 1998 (Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).)
- Simon Lee, David, Paris, Phaidon, 2002 (Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).)
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