Late 18th-Century French School, Portrait Of A Gentleman

Late 18th-Century French School, Portrait Of A GentlemanThis charming late 18th century French portrait captures a gentleman at the height of fashion an era when powdered wigs and elaborately dressed hair reached architectural proportions, and neckwear seemed to rebel against practicality. Produced around 1780, during the glittering final decades before the French Revolution, the sitter is furnished with an extraordinary coiffure together with an exuberantly tied white cravat that almost threatens to

storm clouds and seated figures

this portrait exemplifies the values of Cologne portraiture at its most refined

particularly those with witty or moralising subjects

he’s represented in numerous public collections

A twisting tree on the left frames our view

Harriet drafted his memoirs and we’ve written extensively on the subject in his biography

and it’s conceivable that these experiences inspired his appreciation for the finer things in life

This early 20th-century oil painting by Danish artist Carl Martin Soya-Jensen (1860-1912) depicts a street in Ribe

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critics referred to him as an impressionist that could actually draw

While around it

within this ancient structure