Hortense De Beauharnais

Portrait of incomparable freshness and softness.
Blue eyes painted with realism.
Haïr with wild but controlled curls in a nevertheless elegant hairstyle typical of the Empire period.
Soft and sensual lips very finely painted.
A green cashmere with multiple folds, with a white, red and green frieze elegantly surrounding the shoulder.
A left hand, whose index finger is set with a ring, subtly placed on top of the chest.
A plain background with a bluish-green gray gradient.
All these elements indisputably remind us of the art of painting of two giants of French painting from the beginning of the 19th century. Anne-Louis Girodet Trioson and Jacques Louis David.
This painting represents the beautiful daughter and sister-in-law of Napoleon Bonaparte around 1800-1805, namely Hortense de Beauharnais.
She was the wife of Louis Napoleon (brother of Napoleon Bonaparte) and the daughter of Joséphine de Beauharnais (wife of Napoleon Bonaparte) Future Queen of the Netherlands. This painting comes from a private collection in Brussels.