Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Miniature Portraits on Ivory at the Louvre (18th Century)

François-Hubert Drouais
Portrait of a Woman as Venus
before 1775
watercolor on ivory
Musée du Louvre

François-Antoine Romany
Portrait of a Young Woman
1785
watercolor on ivory
Musée du Louvre

Jean-Joseph Thaillasson
Self Portrait
ca. 1785
watercolor on ivory
Musée du Louvre

François Dumont
Portrait of Marie Antoinette
1784
watercolor on ivory
Musée du Louvre

François Dumont
Portrait of Monsieur Vestier
ca. 1789
watercolor on ivory
Musée du Louvre

François Dumont
Self Portrait
ca. 1795
watercolor on ivory
Musée du Louvre

François Hippolyte
Portrait of musician and actor Julie Candeille
1789
watercolor on ivory
Musée du Louvre

François Hippolyte
Portrait of revolutionary Théroigne de Méricourt
ca. 1792
watercolor on ivory
Musée du Louvre

                                        The monuments
To which the future genuflects will bear
These faces, so intelligently stern,
Under whose revolutionary stare
Everything that is burnable must burn.

– Adam Kirsch, from Revolutionaries (2013)

Jean-Baptiste Isabey
Portrait of Monsieur Férès,
secretary to Marie Antoinette

ca. 1790
watercolor and gouache on ivory
Musée du Louvre

Jean-Baptiste Isabey
Portrait of a Young Woman
ca. 1795
watercolor and gouache on ivory
Musée du Louvre

Louis-François Aubry
Self Portrait
ca. 1790
watercolor on ivory
Musée du Louvre

Jean-Antoine Laurent
Equestrian Portrait of a Young Nobleman
1790
watercolor on ivory
Musée du Louvre

Jean-Antoine Laurent
Portrait of Mademoiselle Bussy-Rabutin
ca. 1795
watercolor on ivory
Musée du Louvre

Jean-Urbain Guérin
Portrait of a Young Woman
ca. 1795
watercolor on ivory
Musée du Louvre

attributed to Johann Baptist Lampi
Portrait of a Young Woman
ca. 1790
watercolor on ivory
Musée du Louvre

Lié-Louis Périn-Salbreux
Self Portrait
ca. 1795
watercolor on ivory
Musée du Louvre