Portrait Of A Young Man, Consulate Period, In The Style Of David

This young man, painted at the very end of the 18th century or at the turn of the early 19th century, still sports a "dog ears" hairstyle, so popular with fashionable people under the Directory. The light green frock coat, with high lapels, the tie knotted in the devil's style with the collar making the neck disappear, is, with this hairstyle, the uniform claimed by the muscadins, often young royalists ready to fight with knotty sticks with the sans culottes. The painter, too, works in the spirit of the times, because he applies the lessons of David, the most famous painter of the time, with this sketched technique, and this light downy background. The painting is in its excellent frame with palmettes, which bears a dealer's label that is difficult to read (Rey seems possible). The painting has been relined recently and is in perfect condition after its restoration.