Portrait of Théophile Van Robais

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Portrait of Théophile Van Robais

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Jean-Baptiste Perronneau

French Artist · 1715–1783

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In the 1700s, Jean-Baptiste Perronneau was one of France's most significant pastel portraitists During his lifetime, pastel portraits were immensely popular--widely commissioned and collected. Perronneau began his career as an engraver but shifted to oils and pastels in 1744. He made his Salon debut with a pastel portrait in 1746 and received full membership in the Académie Royale in 1753. Perronn

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Before a creamy beige background, Théophile Van Robais meets our eye with a direct and measured gaze. The delicate surface of the pastel conveys the textures of his closely shaven skin and neatly powdered, single-curl wig. Rather than crowding the composition with genre details, Perronneau included just one hint at a setting: the outline of a velvet-backed chair visible in the shadows. Like his older colleague and rival Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Perronneau possessed a special gift for convincing likenesses and an extraordinary facility with pastels. Lacking La Tour’s connections at court, however, Perronneau spent much of his career traveling around France—and indeed the whole of Europe—with his pastel kit at the ready. The sitter for this portrait, Théophile van Robais (1732-1799), belonged to a wealthy family of textile manufacturers from northern France. The jacket he sports here was probably once brightly colored. Long before this work’s arrival at the Getty, light exposure seems to have faded this sensitive pigment until it almost matched the background.

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Artist/Maker
Jean-Baptiste Perronneau
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Date
1770
Medium
Pastel, on paper, mounted on canvas
Culture
French
Object Type
Drawing

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Object Type
Drawing
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Creator
Jean-Baptiste Perronneau
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Culture
French
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Medium
Pastel, on paper, mounted on canvas
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Drawings
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1770
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1770
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1770
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