Family Portrait of Pierre Fonton de L'Estaing
K. de Angelis
Basic information
- ID
- Ж-3429
- Author
- K. de Angelis
- Name
- Family Portrait of Pierre Fonton de L'Estaing
- Date of creation
- mid-18th c.
- Technique
- oil painting
- Material
- wood oil
- Dimensions (height x width, cm)
- 30 x 36
Additionally
- Type
- painting
- Genre
- portraiture genre art
- Plot
- Portrait
- Exposition
- Potocki Palace
Information about author
Object description
In the luxuriously furnished room, against the backdrop of an open window, half-covered by a curtain, the artist placed family members of the gentleman Pierre Fonton de L'Estaing. The head of the family, a grey-haired, imposing man, is placed in the centre of the room. He is seated in an armchair, resting one leg on the other, and looks at the viewer with a friendly gaze. Behind him stands his elderly wife, a dignified lady in a white lace cap with a red ribbon. Behind the back of the chair is his eldest daughter in a beige dress. She is depicted full-length and holds a book. The youngest daughter, whose hair is neatly combed, wears a white dress and stands to the left of her father. She holds a brush and hands her father a newly painted portrait of a man. Opposite the older man, the middle daughter sits with one hand on the clavichord, decorated with an image of a lyre and gilded floral and ornamental decorations. An embroidered red cloak is draped over the back of her chair. An unmistakable family resemblance unites all the figures. The girls' occupations, the books, and the works of art that decorate the room represent the system of Enlightenment values and ideals shared by the noble family members.
Legal regulation
Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery
