Firmin Massot
(Swiss, 1766-1849)


Juliette Récamier (1807).
Oil on canvas.
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon.

“She was at once graceful and exquisitely modelled, her neck was admirable in form and proportion, her mouth small and vermilion, her teeth pearly, her arms charming, albeit somewhat spare, her chestnut hair curled naturally, her nose was delicate and regular, especially French…her walk was that of a goddess on the clouds…”

– "The New Monthly Magazine” (1859), p. 455.



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