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René-Charles Dassy and His Brother Jean-Baptiste-Claude-Amédé Dassy
About the Artwork
This double portrait depicts two brothers dressed in the height of fashion for the 1850s, clearly asserting their social status. Jean-Baptiste (left, age 23) carries gloves and a walking stick. René-Charles (right, age 25) wears an embroidered black velvet suit in the exotic à la grecque mode (in the Greek style) inspired by the Greek war of independence (1821–32). Flandrin represents the figures in an academic style emphasizing line over color, reflecting his training as a pupil of J. A. D. Ingres.
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, lower right, Hip. Flandrin, 1850
Provenance
By descent through the sitter's family 2000: (W.M. Brady & Co. Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) 2000–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Hippolyte, Paul, Auguste. Les Flandrin, artistes et frères. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, 69001 Lyon, France (organizer) (May 19-September 5, 2021).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Hippolyte Jean Flandrin (French, 1809–1864)
- Date
- 1850
- Medium
- oil on canvas, original frame
- Dimensions
- Framed: 173.5 x 134 x 14 cm (68 5/16 x 52 3/4 x 5 1/2 in.); Unframed: 133.4 x 92.7 cm (52 1/2 x 36 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
- Accession no.
- 2000.17
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Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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