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René-Charles Dassy and His Brother Jean-Baptiste-Claude-Amédé Dassy
Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin1850
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
This double portrait depicts two brothers dressed in the height of fashion for the 1850s, clearly asserting their social status. Jean-Baptiste (left, age 23) carries gloves and a walking stick. René-Charles (right, age 25) wears an embroidered black velvet suit in the exotic à la grecque mode (in the Greek style) inspired by the Greek war of independence (1821–32). Flandrin represents the figures in an academic style emphasizing line over color, reflecting his training as a pupil of J. A. D. Ingres.
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- Title: René-Charles Dassy and His Brother Jean-Baptiste-Claude-Amédé Dassy
- Creator: Hippolyte Jean Flandrin (French, 1809–1864)
- Date Created: 1850
- Physical Dimensions: Framed: 173.5 x 134 x 14 cm (68 5/16 x 52 3/4 x 5 1/2 in.); Unframed: 133.4 x 92.7 cm (52 1/2 x 36 1/2 in.)
- Provenance: By descent through the sitter's family, (W.M. Brady & Co. Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2000.17
- Medium: oil on canvas, original frame
- Inscriptions: Signed and dated, lower right, Hip. Flandrin, 1850
- Fun Fact: Thin walking sticks, like the one pictured here, were trendy accessories at the time.
- Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Culture: France, 19th century
- Credit Line: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
- Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
- Accession Number: 2000.17
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