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Portrait of a Sculptor


Gabriel Revel, Portrait of a Sculptor, ca. 1680, oil on canvas, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Edwin Binney, 3rd, public domain, 68.34

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Title

Portrait of a Sculptor

Artist

Gabriel Revel (French, 1643-1712)

Related People

pictured in: Antoine Coysevox (French, 1640-1720)

Date

ca. 1680

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions (H x W x D)

26 1/4 in x 22 1/4 in

Collection Area

European Art

Category

Paintings

Object Type

painting

Culture

French

Credit Line

Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Edwin Binney, 3rd

Accession Number

68.34

Copyright

public domain

Terms

artists

canvas

oil paint

oil paintings

paintings

portraits

sculptors

Location

Belluschi Building

Ayer Wing

2nd Floor

Laura and Roger Meier Family Gallery

Description

As part of its political program for enhancing the status of artists, the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture encouraged portraits of its members. Revel created sympathetic depictions of the sculptor Jean Dubois and this unidentified sculptor. These renderings may have led the Academy to ask Revel in 1682 to paint two of its most distinguished members in the field of sculpture, François Girardon and Michel Anguier, as qualification for his own membership in the Academy.

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