id:			161595
accession number:	2000.17
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2000.17
updated:		2023-03-15 15:46:39.949000

René-Charles Dassy and His Brother Jean-Baptiste-Claude-Amédé Dassy, 1850. Hippolyte Jean Flandrin (French, 1809–1864). Oil on canvas, original frame; framed: 173.5 x 134 x 14 cm (68 5/16 x 52 3/4 x 5 1/2 in.); unframed: 133.4 x 92.7 cm (52 1/2 x 36 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 2000.17

title:				René-Charles Dassy and His Brother Jean-Baptiste-Claude-Amédé Dassy
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creation date:			1850
creation date earliest:		1850
creation date latest:		1850
current location:		219 19th Century European
creditline:			Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	France, 19th century
technique:	oil on canvas, original frame
department:	Modern European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Hippolyte Jean Flandrin (French, 1809–1864)  - artist

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measurements: Framed: 173.5 x 134 x 14 cm (68 5/16 x 52 3/4 x 5 1/2 in.); Unframed: 133.4 x 92.7 cm (52 1/2 x 36 1/2 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Signed and dated, lower right, Hip. Flandrin, 1850
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Hippolyte, Paul, Auguste. Les Flandrin, artistes et frères
	opening date:   2021-05-19T04:00:00
	<i>Hippolyte, Paul, Auguste. Les Flandrin, artistes et frères</i>. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, 69001 Lyon, France (organizer) (May 19-September 5, 2021).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Paris, Salon of 1850, No. 1071<br>Paris, Exposition Universelle, 1855<br>Paris, Ecole Impériale des Beaux-Arts, Hippolyte Flandrin, 1865, No. 27

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PROVENANCE

	By descent through the sitter's family
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	(W.M. Brady & Co. Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: 2000
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2000–
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fun fact:
Thin walking sticks, like the one pictured here, were trendy accessories at the time.

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wall description:
This double portrait depicts two brothers dressed in the height of fashion for the 1850s, clearly asserting their social status. Jean-Baptiste (left, age 23) carries gloves and a walking stick. René-Charles (right, age 25) wears an embroidered black velvet suit in the exotic à la grecque mode (in the Greek style) inspired by the Greek war of independence (1821–32). Flandrin represents the figures in an academic style emphasizing line over color, reflecting his training as a pupil of J. A. D. Ingres.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art, “French 19th-Century Double Portrait Acquired; <em>Jazz Bowl</em> Purchased at Auction,” June 19, 2000, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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	url:		https://archive.org/details/cmapr4343

	Marchetti, Elena, and Stéphane Paccoud. <em>Hippolyte, Paul, Auguste: lLs Flandrin, Artistes et Frères.</em> [Lyon]: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon; [Paris]: In Fine, 2021.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 243, cat. no. 270
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IMAGES

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print:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2000.17/2000.17_print.jpg
full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2000.17/2000.17_full.tif