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Compare the loosely scrubbed background with the sharp detail of the gold collar, the blue sash and the lace at his throat.
This portrait shows the bailli de Crussol, captain of the guard to the comte d’Artois, the future Charles X. He wears the blue sash of the order of the Saint-Esprit and the cross of the Knights of Malta, which bound him to celibacy, though he had a long relationship with the still-life painter the marquise de Grollier. The Met notes that the roughly brushed background, a texture linked with David, became typical of Neoclassical painting.
Oil on wood · 35 3/8 x 25 1/2 in. (89.9 x 64.8 cm · The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Neoclassicism
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- Museum title
- Alexandre Charles Emmanuel de Crussol-Florensac (1743–1815)
- Artist
- Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, Paris 1755–1842 Paris)
- Date
- 1787
- Medium
- Oil on wood
- Dimensions
- 35 3/8 x 25 1/2 in. (89.9 x 64.8 cm)
- Credit line
- The Jules Bache Collection, 1949
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.