Artist: Francois Auguste Biard
Date: 1848
Size: 51 x 47 cm
Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, United States Of America)
Technique: Oil On Canvas
Despite the nuanced depiction of the man’s head and face, this painting was intended not as a portrait but as a study of a model. Biard focused on the sitter’s features and expression, producing a compelling likeness. Unfortunately, we do not know the name of the sitter, who posed in the artist’s studio in Paris in 1848. In that year, slavery was abolished definitively in France’s overseas colonies, and Biard received a commission commemorating the event. This study likely relates to that picture (Château de Versailles).
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