François-René de Chateaubriand (1768–1848)

Image credit: The New Art Gallery Walsall

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A pupil of the great French neo-classical painter David, Girodet favoured dramatic incident, often taken from literature, and theatrical effects of light and shade.

One of his best-known paintings, 'The Entombment of Atala' (1808), illustrated a scene from a story by the sitter of this portrait, the French Romantic writer Chateaubriand. With his shirt rakishly open at the neck, hair tousled and eyes fixed as if studying some distant vista, the writer is given a suitably Romantic treatment here.

The New Art Gallery Walsall

Walsall

Title

François-René de Chateaubriand (1768–1848)

Date

1791

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 43 x W 36 cm

Accession number

GR.127

Acquisition method

gift from Kathleen Epstein, 1973

Work type

Painting

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