Paintings
René-Charles Dassy and His Brother Jean-Baptiste-Claude-Amédé Dassy
Permanent ExhibitionPainting
Details
- Author / creator
- Hippolyte Jean Flandrin (French, 1809–1864)
- Object type
- Painting
- Date or period
- 1850
- Dimensions summary
- Framed: 173.5 × 134 × 14 cm; Unframed: 133.4 × 92.7 cm
- Support
- Canvas
- Paint medium
- Oil
- Place of origin
- France
- Acquisition method
- Purchase
- Credit line
- Purchased with the Ashcombe City Council acquisitions budget, 2000
About this object
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.
Materials and technique
Oil on canvas, original frame
Signature and marks
Signed and dated, lower right, Hip. Flandrin, 1850
