Jeanne-Philiberte Ledoux (Paris 1767-1840)
"Allegory of Seduction"
Portrait of a young woman
Late 18th century - Early 19th century
Oil on canvas
Canvas cm. 65 x 50 frame 80 x 65
Excellent condition
The painting is on its original canvas and with the original gilded frame.
Splendid female portrait executed with great finesse by the celebrated Parisian painter JEANNE-PHILIBERTE LEDOUX, who offers a sample of her skill in depicting young and beautiful ladies.
The protagonist, even with her gaze turned downwards and her hand almost covering her face in a gesture of modest shame, mischievously displays a bare breast, and her pose is attractive and highly charming.
The Author unleashes all her skills in female portraiture, embodying "Seduction" in a particularly graceful manner where a refined elegance shines through rather than a more sensual eroticism, with the female in ostentatious provocative attitudes.
We emphasize the excellent condition of the canvas, complete with its beautiful original frame, gilded and finely sculpted with a neoclassical motif.
Biography
Ledoux, Jeanne Philiberte (1767–1840)
French painter. Born in Paris in 1767; died in 1840.
What is known about the French painter Jeanne Philiberte Ledoux derives from the salon registers, which document that she was one of the numerous students of Jean Baptiste Greuze (1725–1805) and that she exhibited in the salons held between 1793 and 1819, after which she disappeared from public records. The titles of two paintings exhibited at the Salon of 1819, Girl Holding a Dove and Boy Near an Apple with a Fistful of Sticks, are indicative of Ledoux's preoccupation with children, as is Portrait of a Boy (Louvre, Paris), a work that exudes the sentiment and idealism found in much of Greuze's work. In another work, Portrait of a Boy (The Baltimore Museum of Art), painted around 1800, the artist used a more direct technique, making the portrait more intimate than the earlier portrait in the Louvre.
Having never exhibited large historical paintings or portraits of illustrious figures, Ledoux had a modest career as a portraitist, catering solely to a bourgeois clientele. Although her paintings appear in many French and American museums, most of her works have remained with the descendants of her original patrons, complicating efforts to identify and study her work. Furthermore, her canvases are rarely signed or dated, and therefore some may have been mistakenly attributed to her more famous teacher, Jean Baptiste Greuze.
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