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Portrait of Paul and Hippolyte Flandrin (Main View)

F. Chabrol

The J. Paul Getty Museum

The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States

The Flandrin brothers, Paul and Hippolyte, were well-known French academic painters, so closely identified with one another that fellow artists often addressed them as though they were one person. They often created double self-portraits, with the commercial photographer Chabrol acting as camera operator, but not creative director. So similar in countenance that they could be twins, they form near mirror reflections of one another, their individuality betrayed only by the subtle difference in costuming and the turn of a head. The informal backdrop suggests that this work may have been made in the brothers' own shared painting studio in Paris.

Details

  • Title: Portrait of Paul and Hippolyte Flandrin (Main View)
  • Creator: F. Chabrol
  • Date Created: 1848–1849
  • Type: Cased object
  • External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
  • Medium: Daguerreotype
  • Terms of Use: Open Content
  • Number: 84.XT.265.17
  • Culture: French
  • Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
  • Creator Display Name: F. Chabrol (French, active 1840 - 1860s)
  • Classification: Photographs (Visual Works)

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