Jeune fille en buste
Jeune fille en buste (Portrait of the young girl) is a work by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin painted in 1794 and exhibited at the Louvre in Paris.
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| Artist | Pierre-Narcisse Guérin |
| Year | 1794[1] |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Movement | Classicism |
| Dimensions | 60 cm × 50 cm (24 in × 20 in) |
| Location | Musée du Louvre[1], Paris |
Background
One of Guérin's early works, the painting treats the subject in a frank and direct way. It is a portrait of a young girl, depicted while covering her breasts with both hands. The smooth background, simplicity of the design and the use of the measured color are characteristic of the neo-classical style and of the school of Jean-Baptiste Regnault and Jacques-Louis David. The work was acquired by the Louvre in 1978.[1]
The girl's short hair is inspired by the "Titus style model" (French: à la Titus),[2] popular in France at the time and based on the hairstyle of the Roman era.[3] In fact, the work is one of the first paintings to depict this hairstyle.[4] The style may have taken its name from Titus Junius Brutus, son of the Roman politician Lucius Junius Brutus.[5]
Mary Novik's debut novel, Conceit used the image for the cover of the book.[2]
References
- "Jeune fille en buste". Louvre (in French). 1795.
- Novik, Mary. "Jeune fille en buste". Backstory.
- Lowery, Allison (2019-11-28). Historical Wig Styling: Ancient Egypt to the 1830s. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-429-74980-3. Retrieved 2021-09-29.
- "Coiffeur alla Titus, il primo taglio di capelli corti per le donne occidentali". Dejavuteam (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2019-02-28. Retrieved 2021-09-29.
- Patowary, Kaushik (2020-04-01). "The Guillotine Haircut". Retrieved 2021-09-29.
External links
Media related to Jeune fille en buste, Guérin at Wikimedia Commons