A Portrait of the Duchess of Bassano by François Gérard
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Two years after the formidable Portrait de Charles Ferdinand Théodore de Vassinhac d'Imécourt, another portrait by Baron Gérard, just as monumental and unprecedented, has appeared at auction, and has always remained with the model's heirs. François Gérard (1770-1837), Portrait of the Duchess of Bassano, canvas, 227 x 147 cm/89.37 x 57.87 in.Estimate : € 800,000/1,000,000 The art of portraiture is also the art of the letter writing... “Madame de Bassano was too beautiful, her husband too powerful, she was too lavished by the favors of her sovereign, so that slander could not seek to harm her; it seeks with greater perseverance all kinds
