#Jean-Baptiste-François Desoria

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Oil Painting, 1797, French.

By Jean-Baptiste-François Desoria.

Portraying Constance Pipelet in a white empire-waist dress.

The Art Institute of Chicago.

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Portrait of Constance Pipelet, 1797

Jean-Baptiste-François Desoria

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Portrait of Constance Pipelet

Artist: Jean-Baptiste-François Desoria (French, 1758–1832)

Date: 1797

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

Description

Painted in the aftermath of the French Revolution, Désoria’s Portrait of Constance Pipelet typifies the Neoclassical style of portraiture practiced by Jacques-Louis David and his circle. The figure, placed parallel to the picture plane and silhouetted against the bright blue of the sky, evokes antique relief sculpture. Her white cotton dress was the fashionable attire of middle- and upper-class women in the 1790s, its antique associations reflecting Neoclassical ideals and its simplicity echoing the egalitarian spirit of the new French Republic. Constance Pipelet, later Constance de Salm-Dyck, was a noted poet, librettist, and feminist with a salon that attracted the literary and artistic notables of Paris.

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Elégante vue de dos by Jean Pillement (Artcurial - 22Mar23 auction Lot 156). From invaluable.com; fixed spots w Pshop 2401X3578.

Lady by Jean-Laurent Mosnier (location ?). From garystockbridge617.getarchive.net/amp/topics/18th+century+oil+portraits+of+women+at+bust+length?page=2 404X480.

Constance Pipelet by Jean-Baptiste-François Desoria (Art Institute of Chicago - Chicago, Illinois, USA). From tumblr.com/history-of-fashion 2048X2705.

Zofia Wittowa Potocka (1760–1822) als Vestalin by Johann Baptist Lampi (Pinacoteca, Palazzo del Buonconsiglio - Trento, Trentino, Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, Italy). From tumblr.com/sims4rococo76; too many flaws to fix 2048X2596. There too many flaws to attempt making repairs.

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Portrait of Constance Pipelet, 1797

By Jean-Baptiste-François Desoria French, 1758–1832

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1797 Jean-Baptiste François Desoria - Portrait of Constance Pipelet

(Art Institute of Chicago)

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‘Male Nude’ 1786 by Jean-Baptiste François Desoria (1758 – 1832). French painter. oil on canvas

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Blog #4 part that got cut off

he experienced a dream about Francis. After the Age of Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution came into full motion, people began to move away from art being only about religion to art being about literally anything else. From portraits, scenes from history, to pieces of fruit. Artists sought to find a way to express the daily life of the average person on the average day. That’s not to say that art was never about religious themes but rather art became more expressive about other topics in life. One of the pictures that I liked from the Art Institute was the Portrait of Constance Piptelet which was made in the year seventeen ninety seven. According to the journal in the JAMA Network, Jean-Baptiste François Desoria (1758-1832) was born in Paris and was primarily a history painter in the Neoclassical style. He painted Constance Pipelet who was a writer and librettist; she was known primarily for her role in the opera Sapho and her book Epître aux femmes (Epistle to the Women).. I imagine Desoria wanted to explore a new way to depict women in a new era. From earlier portraits, it was only noble women and they appeared to be very serious and not very expressive. Desoria challenges this by making her very natural, calming, and beautiful. As the JAMA network also notes, like her French predecessor of some four centuries earlier, Christine de Pizan, Constance Pipelet celebrated in writing the intellectual achievements of women.