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René-Charles Dassy and His Brother Jean-Baptiste-Claude-Amédé Dassy

René-Charles Dassy and His Brother Jean-Baptiste-Claude-Amédé Dassy

1850
(French, 1809–1864)
France, 19th century
oil on canvas, original frame
Framed: 173.5 x 134 x 14 cm (68 5/16 x 52 3/4 x 5 1/2 in.); Unframed: 133.4 x 92.7 cm (52 1/2 x 36 1/2 in.)
Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 2000.17
Location: 219 19th Century European

Did You Know?

Thin walking sticks, like the one pictured here, were trendy accessories at the time.

Description

This double portrait depicts two brothers dressed in the height of fashion for the 1850s, clearly asserting their social status. Jean-Baptiste (left, age 23) carries gloves and a walking stick. René-Charles (right, age 25) wears an embroidered black velvet suit in the exotic à la grecque mode (in the Greek style) inspired by the Greek war of independence (1821–32). Flandrin represents the figures in an academic style emphasizing line over color, reflecting his training as a pupil of J. A. D. Ingres.
  • By descent through the sitter's family
    2000
    (W.M. Brady & Co. Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    2000–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, “French 19th-Century Double Portrait Acquired; Jazz Bowl Purchased at Auction,” June 19, 2000, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. archive.org
    "A Selection of 2000 Museum Acquisitions." Apollo: The International Magazine of Art & Antiques 152 (December 2000): 17–49. Reproduced: P. 45
    Badea-Păun, Gabriel. The Society Portrait: From David to Warhol. New York: Vendome Press, 2007. Reproduced: P. 84; Mentioned: P. 86
    Marchetti, Elena, and Stéphane Paccoud. Hippolyte, Paul, Auguste: lLs Flandrin, Artistes et Frères. [Lyon]: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon; [Paris]: In Fine, 2021. Reproduced: P. 243, cat. no. 270
  • Hippolyte, Paul, Auguste. Les Flandrin, artistes et frères. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, 69001 Lyon, France (organizer) (May 19-September 5, 2021).
    Paris, Salon of 1850, No. 1071
    Paris, Exposition Universelle, 1855
    Paris, Ecole Impériale des Beaux-Arts, Hippolyte Flandrin, 1865, No. 27
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2000.17