1. 15 May


    womenreading: Gravin de Pagès, née de Cornellan, as St. Catherine (1820-1850) Joseph-Désiré Court (1797-1865). Romanticism. Portrait. Oil on canvas. Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam, Netherlands. Court, a painter of historical subjects and portraits, was a pupil at the École des Beaux-Arts under Gros. There were high expectations when he exhibited in 1827 ‘The Death of Caesar,’ a work manifesting earnest thought, and a conscientious handling of the facts of history. This is now preserved in the Louvre. Having shown himself in this and other works a vigorous painter, capable of seizing a subject with a masterly grasp, Court eventually dissipated his talents in the production of a series of empty official pictures painted by order of Louis Philippe.

    womenreading:

    Gravin de Pagès, née de Cornellan, as St. Catherine (1820-1850)

    Joseph-Désiré Court (1797-1865). Romanticism. Portrait. Oil on canvas. Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam, Netherlands.

    Court, a painter of historical subjects and portraits, was a pupil at the École des Beaux-Arts under Gros. There were high expectations when he exhibited in 1827 ‘The Death of Caesar,’ a work manifesting earnest thought, and a conscientious handling of the facts of history. This is now preserved in the Louvre. Having shown himself in this and other works a vigorous painter, capable of seizing a subject with a masterly grasp, Court eventually dissipated his talents in the production of a series of empty official pictures painted by order of Louis Philippe.

     
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