Lot 370
  • 370

Henri-Pierre Danloux

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • Henri-Pierre Danloux
  • Portrait of Jean-Louis Gustave d' Hautefort, and his sister, Marie-Thérèse-Thaïs d'Hautefort
  • oil on canvas

Catalogue Note

This handsome and colorful double portrait can be dated on stylistic terms to late in Danloux's career, when he had already returned to Paris from a sojourn in England (begun in 1792) and absorbed the art of Henry Raeburn, who had a deep impact on Danloux's late work. 

Danloux studied with both Joseph-Marie Vien and Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié and met Jacques-Louis David during a trip to Rome in the late 1770s. The influence of these artists, encountered in his formative years, remained palpable on Danloux for the rest of his career; it is particularly evident in his expressive faces and capacity for conveying human emotion. Danloux soon established himself as a talented genre painter and portraitist, spending time in both Italy and France. In 1785 he moved to Paris where he met the Baronne d'Etigny, who helped him obtain a number of importrant portrait commissions and two years later he married the Baronne's adopted daughter Marie-Pierrerre-Antoinette de Saint Redan. After eighteen months in Italy, the couple settled in Paris but were forced to flee to London in 1791 to escape the Revolution. By then, Danloux was at the height of his career; adapting to life in London with ease, he swiftly became renowned in the city's artistic and collecting circles alike, a fact to which this elegant composition clearly attests.