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yourhelenwolf · 1 year
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Sketches of scenery for "Robespierre" by F.F. Raskolnikov.
Artist: N.P. Akimov. 1931.
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yourhelenwolf · 1 year
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I strongly doubt that any of the artists of the 1790s would copy a Gautherot drawing containing errors, and I doubt even more that the portrait from Berlin could have been painted by Gautherot in the 1790s.
The portrait from Berlin belongs to someone else. It is impossible to exclude the version that the face, collar and frill were painted by David himself, and the rest of the details by his pupils. But it is impossible to specify exactly who the author is based on the information we have.
The drawing requires serious additional research, as too many mystifications and fakes have been created.
More on the Gautherot drawing of Max
I've found that it was exhibited in January 1848 at the Exposition de l'Association des Artistes, labelled as a sketch from life done at the Convention. A reference is also made to a painting in Saint-Albin's collection being by David… Now, the most famous Max portrait Saint-Albin had is the one of the same type as the drawing. I wonder if it's another case of the master being credited with a work by one of his pupils/atelier members, because the Berlin painting doesn't look like a David.
I'd love them to x-ray it, to see if the glasses have been overpainted/removed at some point.
The drawing is described, too, with an attribtion to Gautherot in 1882, in one of those rather trashy 'petite histoires' so popular at the time: Adolphe de Lescure's L' amour sous la Terreur:
C’est le Robespierre des derniers temps, usé, pâli, fatigué, peut-être découragé, mais guardant, au-dessus de ce troupeau de la Convention qu’il régente encore, cette allure roide, rogue et pédagogique qui persista chez lui jusque devant la mort. Il a teint blafard, les pommettes saillantes, l’œil cave où brille un regard gris; il porte l’habit nankine rayé de vert (c’est le quatrième connu); un gilet blanc, rayé de bleu; la cravate blanche, rayée de rouge. Le dessinateur a soigneusement noté ce costume, et il n’a eu garde d’oublier les besicles relevées (à l’envers) sur le front, aux ailes de pigeon décollées par la sueur oratoire; sueur de triomphe, près de devenir la sueur d’angoisse.
I don't think he realised that the softer wig-style is a fashion (we see it in the 1792 physionotrace), nothing to do with sweat relaxing the curls.
Gautherot was an active Jacobin, closely associated with Michel Le Peletier and Nicolas Maure. He also 'rectified' Fouquet's physionotrace from Le Peletier's death-mask for engraving.
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yourhelenwolf · 1 year
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@silver-whistle​ Copies of the portraits of Voltaire and Turgot definitely belong to the Gautherot who was a pupil of David. Judging by the date and quality of the paintings, these are early his works.
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@silver-whistle  The Hermitage has two works by Pierre-Claude Gautherot, which are very revealing.
A copy of the portrait of Voltaire, the original was created by Nicolas de Largillière. And a copy of the portrait of Minister Turgot, its author is François-Hubert Drouais. Both of them contain items of clothing specially modified during copying.
Let’s turn to the drawing from the auction https://drouot.com/l/20324138
The drawing contains the addition/modification of elements – glasses, which are depicted upside down; this proves that we are looking at a copy made by Gautherot.
Or the artist turned them over when creating a copy from an unknown original, as he did with other paintings that he copied. Or the artist added glasses, because there was nothing to remove from the painting.
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yourhelenwolf · 1 year
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@silver-whistle  The Hermitage has two works by Pierre-Claude Gautherot, which are very revealing.
A copy of the portrait of Voltaire, the original was created by Nicolas de Largillière. And a copy of the portrait of Minister Turgot, its author is François-Hubert Drouais. Both of them contain items of clothing specially modified during copying.
Let's turn to the drawing from the auction https://drouot.com/l/20324138
The drawing contains the addition/modification of elements – glasses, which are depicted upside down; this proves that we are looking at a copy made by Gautherot.
Or the artist turned them over when creating a copy from an unknown original, as he did with other paintings that he copied. Or the artist added glasses, because there was nothing to remove from the painting.
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yourhelenwolf · 1 year
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I saw another similar drawing. It belonged the Collection de M. George Duruy, at some take it was attributed to Gérard, also to the student of David. It is strange that the signatures of the artists are different. Anyone who made a copy would not sign the drawing with his name, or both artists made a copy of portrait from Deutsches Historisches Museum/Carnavalet. I am surprised by the position of the glasses. I could be mistaken, but by chance it is impossible to turn them over in this way, the design and fastening will not allow. And I have not seen such models before. I suppose that both drawings are falsifications created after the fall of Robespierre based on the painting with the addition of elements from oral descriptions and memories (glasses, clothing color, pallor).
The catalogue of this sale is well worth a look! It is taking me down a new avenue of investigation re: the striped Robespierre portrait!
@montagnarde1793 @patientsisavertu @suburbanbeatnik @yourhelenwolf
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