Collection

Portrait of Jacques Necker

Francois-Elie Vincent

Basic information

ID: Г-III-7
Author: Francois-Elie Vincent
Name: Portrait of Jacques Necker
Date of creation: after 1781
Country: France
Technique: painting
Material: ivory gouache
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 8.6 x 6.7

Additionally

Type: graphic art
Genre: portraiture
Provenance: Purchased from the antiques dealer M. Schulberg for the collection of Wladyslaw Lozinski on June 8, 1912. From 1914, it became part of the Gallery collection.

Information about author

Author: Francois-Elie Vincent
Artist's lifetime: 1708–1790
Biography: Francois-Elie Vincent was a French portrait painter, miniaturist, and enameller of Swiss origin. He was a professor and director of the Académie de Saint-Luc in Paris. From 1780, he had the status of a court artist of royal princesses (sisters of the king).

Object description

The miniature replicates an oil portrait by Joseph-Siffred Duplessis (1781), which is stored in Versailles. Jacques Necker is depicted in accordance with the fashion of that time, in particular with a powdered hairstyle, in a blue jerkin, a white jabot, and a silk neckerchief around his neck. The miniature is in a bronze oval frame with convex glass on the obverse and reverse. On the back of it there is an ivory plate with the inscription: A mon ange (To my angel); it is placed obliquely.

Inscriptions

On the left above the character’s shoulder there is the author's signature.

Portrayed person