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Painting, furniture and works of art from the 17th, 18th and early 19th century
Portrait of an elegant lady
Oil on panel signed upper right "G Jacquet".
Dimensions : 34,5 cm x 27 cm / 13.39 inch x 10.63 inch
Dimensions with frame : 64,5 cm x 57 cm / 25.20 inch x 22.44 inch
A painter of genre and female portraits, he studied with William Adolphe Bouguereau. From his earliest works, the influence of his master can be seen, but he quickly distinguished himself by his virtuoso technique in his paintings of women. He begins at the 1865 Salon with La Modestie and La Tristesse and won a first-class medal in 1875 for his painting La rêverie.
As early as 1867, he won critical acclaim for a series of small-format paintings depicting the lives of elegant women in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Then in 1870, he enlisted in the cavalry during the Franco-German war, marking a pause in his artistic production, but from 1872 he returned to painting, exhibiting every year at the Salon des artistes Français. He also exhibited Portrait de femme at the 1878 Universal Exhibition. Gustave Jacquet is recognized as a master of feminine grace and elegance.
