Christophe Gabriel Allegrain, sculptor by Duplessis, 1774 (Louvre Museum)

Joseph-Siffred Duplessis (Carpentras, near Avignon, 22 September 1725 – Versailles, 1 April 1802) was a French painter, known for the clarity and immediacy of his portraits. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 460 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (829 × 1080 pixel, file size: 109 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Joseph Duplessis, Portrait of the sculptor Christophe Gabriel Allegrain, 1774 (Louvre Museum. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 460 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (829 × 1080 pixel, file size: 109 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Joseph Duplessis, Portrait of the sculptor Christophe Gabriel Allegrain, 1774 (Louvre Museum. ... The main courtyard of the Louvre. ... Carpentras is a city and commune in the département of Vaucluse in the Provence-Alpes-Côte dAzur région of France. ... City flag City coat of arms Location Coordinates Time Zone CET (GMT +1) Administration Country France Région Provence-Alpes-Côte dAzur Département Vaucluse (préfecture) Arrondissement Avignon Canton Chief town of 4 cantons Intercommunality Communauté dagglomération du Grand Avignon Mayor Marie-Josée Roig... September 22 is the 265th day of the year (266th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Events February 8 - Catherine I became empress of Russia February 20 - The first reported case of white men scalping Native Americans takes place in New Hampshire colony. ... Versailles (pronounced in French), formerly de facto capital of the kingdom of France, is now a wealthy suburb of Paris and is still an important administrative and judicial center. ... April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... --69. ... A portrait is a painting, photograph, or other artistic representation of a person or object. ...

He was born into a family with an artistic bent and received his first training from his father, a surgeon and talented amateur, then with Joseph-Gabriel Imbert (1666–1749), who had been a pupil of Charles Le Brun. From 1744-47 or later he worked in Rome, in the atelier of Pierre Subleyras, who was also from the south of France, who died in 1749. In Italy Duplessis became fast friends with Joseph Vernet, another Occitan. Charles Le Brun, contemporary portrait Charles Le Brun (February 24, 1619 - February 22, 1690) was a French painter and art theorist, one of the dominant artists in 17th century France. ... Portrait of Pope Benedict XIV Pierre Subleyras (1699 - May 28, 1749), French painter, was born at Uses (Gard). ... Joseph Vernet, by Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun. ...

He returned to Carpentras, spent a brief time in Lyon then arrived about 1752 in Paris, where he was accepted into the Académie de Saint-Luc and exhibited some portraits, which were now his specialty, in 1764, but did not achieve much notice until his exhibition of ten paintings at the Paris salon of 1769, very well received and selected for special notice by Denis Diderot; the Académie de peinture et de sculpture accepted him in the category of portraitist, considered a lesser category at the time. He continued to exhibit at the Paris salons, both finished paintings and sketches, until 1791, and once more, in 1801. City flag City coat of arms Motto: (Franco-Provençal: Forward, forward, Lyon the best) Location Coordinates Time Zone CET (GMT +1) Administration Country Region Rhône-Alpes Department Rhône (69) Subdivisions 9 arrondissements Intercommunality Urban Community of Lyon Mayor Gérard Collomb  (PS) (since 2001) City Statistics Land... City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Paris Eiffel tower as seen from the esplanade du Trocadéro. ... Honoré Daumier satirized the bourgeoises scandalized by the Salons Venuses, 1864 The Paris Salon (French: Salon de Paris) is the official art exhibition of the Académie des beaux-arts in Paris, France. ... Portrait of Diderot by Louis-Michel van Loo, 1767 Denis Diderot (October 5, 1713 – July 31, 1784) was a French philosopher and writer. ... The Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture (Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture), Paris, was founded in 1648, modelled on Italian examples, such as the Accademia di San Luca in Rome. ...

His portrait of the Dauphine in 1771 and his appointment as a peintre du Roi assured his success: most of his surviving portraits date from the 1770s and 1780s. He received privileged lodgings in the Galeries du Louvre. In the Revolution, he withdrew to safe obscurity at Carpentras during the Reign of terror. Afterwards, from 1796, he served as curator at the newly-founded museum formed at Versaillles, so recently emptied of its furnishings at the Revolutionary sales. His uncompromising self-portrait at this time of his life is at Versailles. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... The Reign of Terror (September 5, 1793 – July 28, 1794) or simply The Terror (French: la Terreur) was a period of about eleven months during the French Revolution when struggles between rival factions led to mutual radicalization which took on a violent character with mass executions by guillotine. ... The Château de Versailles, or simply Versailles, is a royal château in Versailles, France. ...

His adjusted his style to the social condition of his sitter: his portrait of Charles-Claude, comte d'Angiviller, director of the Bâtiments du Roi, is as distant and conventional as his state portrait of Louis XVI in coronation robes (1776)^[1], while his realistic and intimate portrait of the opera composer Christoph Willibald Gluck (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna) catches the composer at the keyboard in a moment of inspiration and his penetrating portrait of the sculptor Christophe Gabriel Allegrain (Louvre Museum, illustration) shows him having just laid down his chisel: this was the morceau de reception that gained him admittance to the Académie. The Bâtiments du Roi (French: Buildings of the King) was a a division of Department of the household of the Kings of France (the Maison du Roi) in France under the Ancien Régime. ... Louis XVI, born Louis-Auguste de France (23 August 1754 – 21 January 1793) ruled as King of France and Navarre from 1774 until 1791, and then as King of the French from 1791 to 1792. ... Christoph Willibald (von) Gluck (July 2, 1714 - November 15, 1787) was a German composer, one of the most important opera composers of the Classical music era, particularly remembered for Orfeo ed Euridice. ... Kunsthistorisches Museum at Maria-Theresien-Platz, Vienna. ... The main courtyard of the Louvre. ...

Duplessis' Benjamin Franklin on the U.S. hundred dollar bill

His portrait of Benjamin Franklin (1778), more than any other, has fixed the image of Franklin for posterity.^[2] This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons, a repository of free content hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. ... This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons, a repository of free content hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. ... The U.S. hundred dollar bill ($100) is a denomination of United States currency. ... Benjamin Franklin (January 17 [O.S. January 6] 1706 – April 17, 1790) was one of the most well known Founding Fathers of the United States. ...

His portrait of the financier Jacques Necker hung at Voltaire's Château de Coppet. Several reduced versions were made, one of which is at the Louvre. Jacques Necker Jacques Necker (September 30, 1732 – April 9, 1804) was a French statesman of Swiss origin and finance minister of Louis XVI. // Necker was born in Geneva, Switzerland. ... For the sport horse, see Voltaire (horse). ...

Many of his portraits received a wider circulation as engravings. Engraving is the practice of incising a design onto a hard, flat surface, by cutting grooves into it. ...

Notes

1. ^ The original disappeared, but has been identified in the Musée Ingres, Montauban (ref Ministère ).
2. ^ Duplessis received many commissions for duplicates: one is at the National Portrait Gallery, London; another at the North Carolina Museum of Art.

References

• Jean-Paul Chabaud, Joseph-Siffred Duplessis. Un provençal, Peintre du Roi, 2004. With catalogue raisonné and archival material. ISBN 2-9521063-0-4

• Joseph-Siffred Duplessis The most comprehensive on-line sketch of his career.
• (Fine Art Museums of San Francisco) Portrait of a Gentleman (Jean-Baptiste-Francois Dupre?), ca 1779 - 1782. Brief sketch of his career.
• (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna) Portrait of Chrisoph Willibald Gluck, 1775
• (Louvre Museum) Joseph-Marie Vien, 1782. A repetition, in oil en grisaille on paper (mounted on canvas), is at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
• (Metropolitan Museum) Benjamin Franklin, 1778. Shown at the Salon of 1779.
• Ministère de la culture: (Louvre Museum, Château de Versailles) Portraits by or attributed to Duplessis