JOSEPH DUPLESSIS

JOSEPH DUPLESSIS Portrait of a Lady with a Book Oil on canvas, 73x60 cm The painting, of great formal and artistic quality, can be confidently attributed to Joseph-Siffred Duplessis, an important French portraitist trained in Carpentras and later in the studio of Pierre Subleyras, active in Paris from the 1760s and known above all for his refined official portraits of Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Benjamin Franklin, and Jacques Necker. In 1769, Denis Diderot expressed his surprise upon discoverin

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H 73 × B 60 cm