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DAVID, Jacques-Louis: Portrait of Gaspar Mayer

🖼 Portrait of Gaspar Mayer, 1795
Oil on canvas
116 × 90 cm
Paris, France

Rendered in neoclassical restraint, a stern-faced man emerges from dark shadow, his gaze penetrating and direct. David captures the psychological intensity of revolutionary-era France through austere portraiture that prioritizes character over flattery.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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