Portraiture and Politics in Revolutionary France
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Jacques-Louis David, Portrait of Jacobus Blauw, 1795. Oil on canvas. National Gallery, London. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Louis-Léopold Boilly, Meeting of Artists in Isabey’s Studio, 1798. Oil on canvas. Louvre Museum, Paris. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Bizard, The National Guard protecting a load of sugar during the riots in Paris in January 1791, 1791. Oil on canvas. Musée de la Révolution, Château de Vizille. Photograph by Rama, Wikimedia Commons, Cc-by-sa-2.0-fr.
Jacques-Louis David, Portrait of Anne-Marie-Louise-Thélusson, Countess of Sorcy, 1790. Oil on canvas. Neue Pinakothek, Munich. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
François Gérard, Portrait of Thérésa Tallien (1773-1835), after 1804. Oil on canvas. Carnavalet Museum, Paris. Source: Wikimedia Commons.