Art Institute of Chicago
Contest for the Prize for the Study of Heads and Expression
Jean-Jacques Flipart (French, 1719-1782)
- Date
- 1763, based on a drawing from 1761
- Medium
- Etching and engraving on off-white laid paper
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
After Le Brun’s death, both fledgling and established artists evidently still struggled to properly depict facial expressions. The amateur etcher and antiquarian Comte de Caylus established an annual prize at the French Academy to encourage this study. Flipart’s print of one such competition shows the model as the requisite well-bred, wreathed woman with an ankle exposed, and a typically inscrutable expression that may represent contentment, calm, or simple boredom.
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