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Painted in the aftermath of the French Revolution, Désoria’s Portrait of Constance Pipelet typifies the Neoclassical style of portraiture practiced by Jacques-Louis David and his circle. The figure, placed parallel to the picture plane and silhouetted against the bright blue of the sky, evokes antique relief sculpture. Her white cotton dress was the fashionable attire of middle- and upper-class women in the 1790s, its antique associations reflecting Neoclassical ideals and its simplicity echoing the egalitarian spirit of the new French Republic. Constance Pipelet, later Constance de Salm-Dyck, was a noted poet, librettist, and feminist with a salon that attracted the literary and artistic notables of Paris.
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| Medium | oil paint (paint) |
| Dimensions | 99 × 130 Cm |
| Tags | portraits: female subjectbookchairfashionFranceFrenchlandscapeportraitportraitsportraits: French subjectwealthwhite (color)woman |
| Certificate | Certificate not provided |
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Wed
18
Feb
exhibition
Paris, Salon of 1798 (Year VI of the Republic), Musée central des Arts, no. 118, as Portrait de la citoyenne Pipelet.
Paris, Salon of 1798 (Year VI of the Republic), Musée central des Arts, no. 118, as Portrait de la citoyenne Pipelet.
Wed
18
Feb
exhibition
Northampton, Mass., Smith College Museum of Art, "The French Portrait: Revolution to Restoration, " 2005, cat. 12, as Portrait of Constance Pipelet.
Northampton, Mass., Smith College Museum of Art, "The French Portrait: Revolution to Restoration," 2005, cat. 12, as Portrait of Constance Pipelet.
Wed
18
Feb
note
Margaret A. Oppenheimer, The French Portrait: Revolution to Restoration, exh. cat.
Margaret A. Oppenheimer, The French Portrait: Revolution to Restoration, exh. cat. (Smith College Museum of Art, 2005), pp. 11, 62-64, ill., cat. 12.
Wed
18
Feb
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Renaud Temperini, "Le néo-classicisme" in La Peinture française, ed. Pierre Rosenberg
Renaud Temperini, "Le néo-classicisme" in La Peinture française, ed. Pierre Rosenberg (Paris, 2001), pp. 294, ill., 295.
Wed
18
Feb
exhibition
Detroit, Institute of Arts, French Painting from David to Courbet, 1950, no. 6, as Portrait of Mme Elisabeth Dunoyer.
Detroit, Institute of Arts, French Painting from David to Courbet, 1950, no. 6, as Portrait of Mme Elisabeth Dunoyer.
Wed
18
Feb
exhibition
Illinois, Decatur Art Center, Masterpieces of the Old and New World, 1948, no. 8, as Mme Elizabeth Dunoyer.
Illinois, Decatur Art Center, Masterpieces of the Old and New World, 1948, no. 8, as Mme Elizabeth Dunoyer.
Wed
18
Feb
exhibition
San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Vanity Fair: An Exhibition of Styles of Women's Headdress and Adornment through the Ages, 1942, no. 33, as Portrait of Mme Elisabeth Dunoyer.
San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Vanity Fair: An Exhibition of Styles of Women's Headdress and Adornment through the Ages, 1942, no. 33, as Portrait of Mme Elisabeth Dunoyer.
Wed
18
Feb
note
Frederick A. Sweet, "Judith by Giovanni Martinelli," Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 36, 1
Frederick A. Sweet, "Judith by Giovanni Martinelli," Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 36, 1 (1942), p. 6.
Wed
18
Feb
note
The Art Institute of Chicago, A Brief Illustrated Guide to the Collections
The Art Institute of Chicago, A Brief Illustrated Guide to the Collections (Chicago, 1941), p. 32.
Wed
18
Feb
note
Jacques Doucet (died 1929), Paris [according to a letter of September 25, 1939, from Paul M....
Jacques Doucet (died 1929), Paris [according to a letter of September 25, 1939, from Paul M. Byk, Seligmann, Rey, and Co, to Daniel Catton Rich in curatorial files]. Arnold Seligmann, Rey, and Co., New York, by 1939
Wed
18
Feb
note
sold to the Art Institute, 1939.
sold to the Art Institute, 1939.
Sun
18
Feb
note
Susan Wise in Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago,
Susan Wise in Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago, (Princeton, N.J.. 1996), pp. 49-51, ill.
Sat
18
Feb
exhibition
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Age of Napoleon: Costume from Revolution to Empire, 1789-1815, December 5, 1989-April 15, 1990 (no cat.).
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Age of Napoleon: Costume from Revolution to Empire, 1789-1815, December 5, 1989-April 15, 1990 (no cat.).
Thu
18
Feb
note
Aileen Ribeiro, Fashion in the French Revolution,
Aileen Ribeiro, Fashion in the French Revolution, (London, 1988), fig. 83.
Sun
18
Feb
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Jean François Garmier, "Mâcon, Musée des Ursulines: Dernières Acquisitions," La Revue du Louvre 29, 5/6
Jean François Garmier, "Mâcon, Musée des Ursulines: Dernières Acquisitions," La Revue du Louvre 29, 5/6 (1979), p.432.
Wed
18
Feb
exhibition
Chicago, Art Institute, Selected Works from Eighteenth-Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Insitute of Chicago, 1976, no. 20, as Madame Elisabeth Dunoyer.
Chicago, Art Institute, Selected Works from Eighteenth-Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Insitute of Chicago, 1976, no. 20, as Madame Elisabeth Dunoyer.
Tue
18
Feb
note
Jean Cailleux, "La Grande Peinture, de 1774 à 1830: Le Portrait," Art et curiosité 55
Jean Cailleux, "La Grande Peinture, de 1774 à 1830: Le Portrait," Art et curiosité 55 (January-February 1975), p. 23.
Mon
18
Feb
exhibition
Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, De David à Delacroix: La Peinture française de 1774 à 1830, 1974-75, no. 47, traveled to Detroit and New York, as Madame Elisabeth Dunoyer.
Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, De David à Delacroix: La Peinture française de 1774 à 1830, 1974-75, no. 47, traveled to Detroit and New York, as Madame Elisabeth Dunoyer.
Sat
18
Feb
note
The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection
The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961) p. 126.
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