The
Art of the portrait inspired all the occident at the beginning of the
XVIIIth the century. This exhibition organized jointly by Louvre,
Guggenheim Museum of New York and Royal academy of arts of London,
counts 140 exceptional paintings who represent the famous or anonymous
expression of these suddenly famous ancestors. Very appreciated in the
Anglo-Saxon countries, it answers as much a public request as private.
It is the time or emerge the large romantic celebrities, of the world
of arts, the theater, the music and the policy. The official portrait
crystallizes the recognition social and cultural as much as it conveys
the material image of large of this world, inaccessible. The exhibition
is a wonderful inventory of people signed Reynolds, Delacroix,
Lawrence, Ingres, Vigée-Lebrun, Houdon, David among
others. The images of Napoleon became icons with time. The
bust of Marie-Antoinette points out an art of the hairstyle which was
successful in its time. The portraits of condition solidifies the
uniform or the artistic gesture. The female portrait seeks the emotion,
causes the sensitivity. The portrait of family preserves frankness. The
portrait of artist or the self-portrait is the laboratory of
experimentation and freedom of the creator. The portrait of history is
allegorical and didactic.
