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Description: | Signed: yes Description: A wealthy woman dressed in fashionable silk brocade is detail in an exquisitely detailed evocation of an aristocratic eighteenth century interior. Tapestried wall, an inlaid commode with ormolu mounts, gilt upholstered Louis XV chairs and a floral carpet make up her luxurious domestic setting. From the gesture of hand on heart we are invited to speculate that the letter may be from a beloved. Jacquet, a portrait and genre painter, was a student of William-Adolphe Bouguereau, doyen of nineteenth century French academic painters who taught at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. His influence is evident in Jacquet's early work. Later he abandoned Bouguereau's style and began painting small-scale canvases. He specialised in painting nudes, portraits and genre subjects in which he reinvented the style and subjects of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Jaquet's works were exquisitely painted and very detailed. During the nineteenth century, particularly in France, paintings projecting fanciful images of bygone days were in demand. | Subjects: | interior; figure | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Jacquet, Gustave Jean (French painter, 1846-1909) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8445... | Go to resource |
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