Antique Natural Wall Art Painting

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Seller's Notes:1785 – (After) MARIE-VICTOIRE LEMOINE, Title: Portrait of Youth in Embroidered Vest, ca 1785 Painted on canvas, including frame. The original was exhibited in the "Super Fine" Exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2025 18” X 22” including traditional frame In the permanent collection at The Cummer Museum- (Jackson Ville Florida) The young man in this portrait, dressed in formal French aristocratic style, represents the final flourish (or last gasp?) of the ancien régime in the last years before the French Revolution. ABOUT THE PORTRAIT Marie-Victoire Lemoine (1754 – 1820) painted this Portrait of a Youth in an Embroidered Vest in 1785, during an era of conspicuous excess from the aristocracy and of building revolutionary fervor among the working classes. Raised in an artistic but middle-class family in Paris, Lemoine (Fig. 1) used connections to the French court to paint such aristocratic sitters as the Princesse de Lamballe and the Mademoiselle de Chartres (NMWA). She never married, instead preferring to focus on her artistic career (Kuntsevich).

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