Exhibitions in Parisian galleries (3)

26/11/24 - Paris - Art market - We will end our tour of Parisian galleries on the rue Saint-Anne and the rue de Louvois.

A great artist obviously knows how to present his models in their best light, although the best is not always the most flattering. For example, Böcklin caricatured Franz von Lenbach, a socialite painter if ever there was one, whom he met in Munich and with whom he taught at the Weimar School of Fine Arts (ill. 1). The two friends also portrayed each other one the other in more amiable paintings. The drawing has been offered by the London gallery Emanuel Von Baeyer and is being shown in Paris by the Galerie Michel Descours, which is taking part in the FAB exhibition (see article) at the Grand Palais.

1. Arnold Böcklin (1827-1901)
Caricature Portrait with the Artist Franz von Lenbach, c. 1874
Sanguine - 40.9 x 30.8 cm
Galerie Emanuel von Baeyer London
at the Galerie Michel Descours
Photo: bbsg

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2. Attributed to Jacques Louis David (1748-1825)
Loaded portrait of Jacques Louis David (recto)
(Study of Eyes on the Reverse)
Sanguine - 14.3 x 11 cm
Galerie Benjamin Peronnet
Photo: Galerie Benjamin Peronnet

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Jacques Louis David preferred to take the initiative and sketch himself his strange face swollen with a tumour on the cheek (ill. 2), which he usually concealed with a shadow in his painted self-portraits. Although this drawing was lithographed by Charpentier with the inscription "fac simile of a charge by L. David made by himself in 1786", its attribution is still a matter of debate: according to some, it is unlikely that David would have caricatured himself in this way, while others point out that he had already done so on the verso of a sheet in the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm.

3. Louis Appian (1861-1896)
Self-portrait
Charcoal - 42 × 31 cm
Galerie Ambroise Duchemin
Photo: Galerie Ambroise Duchemin

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