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DAVID, Jacques-Louis: Portrait of the Marquise d’Orvilliers

🖼 Portrait of the Marquise d’Orvilliers, 1790
Oil on canvas
131 × 98 cm
Paris, France

Soft brushwork captures an elegant woman in profile, her refined features and fashionable dress rendered with neoclassical precision. Painted during Revolution's upheaval, this intimate portrait reveals David's skill at aristocratic portraiture even as his patrons faced political extinction.

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E. H. Gombrich
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