Elegant Lady in an Artists Studio Interior, Wearing a Pink Dress.
Oil on canvas.
Gilbert had created a niche for himself with market scenes and for his work in the realistic depiction of the aspects of Parisian life, becoming popular not only with the public but also with the State which bought examples of his work from the Salons.
As his style progressed, Gilbert began to embrace the higher-keyed palette of the Impressionists as well as their bourgeois subject matter.
Mademoiselle Prévost as a Bacchante (c.1723).
Oil on canvas.
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours.
Françoise Prévost, French ballerina, was the leading dancer of her generation. Her precision, lightness, and grace helped establish the technique of classical ballet; she was also noted for her mime and dramatic ability.
Prévost made her debut at the Paris Académie (now Opéra) in Atys and later succeeded Marie Subligny as premiere danseuse.
Portrait of Mademoiselle Ducreux (1793).
Oil on canvas.
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen.
Rose Adélaïde Ducreux made her debut at the Louvre Salon in 1791, for which she submitted a portrait of a young woman and a life-size, full-length self-portrait in which she is depicted playing the harp.
David depicts Ducreux with her painterly tools as well as sheet music, as Dureux was an accomplished musician as well as painter.