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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1850 creation date earliest: 1850 creation date latest: 1850 current location: 219 19th Century European creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: oil on canvas, original frame department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960 type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Hippolyte Jean Flandrin (French, 1809–1864) - artist --- 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed and dated, lower right, Hip. Flandrin, 1850 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Hippolyte, Paul, Auguste. Les Flandrin, artistes et frères opening date: 2021-05-19T04:00:00 Hippolyte, Paul, Auguste. Les Flandrin, artistes et frères. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, 69001 Lyon, France (organizer) (May 19-September 5, 2021). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Paris, Salon of 1850, No. 1071
Paris, Exposition Universelle, 1855
Paris, Ecole Impériale des Beaux-Arts, Hippolyte Flandrin, 1865, No. 27 --- PROVENANCE By descent through the sitter's family date: footnotes: citations: (W.M. Brady & Co. Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 2000 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2000– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Thin walking sticks, like the one pictured here, were trendy accessories at the time. digital description: 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. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, “French 19th-Century Double Portrait Acquired; Jazz Bowl Purchased at Auction,” June 19, 2000, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr4343 Marchetti, Elena, and Stéphane Paccoud. Hippolyte, Paul, Auguste: lLs Flandrin, Artistes et Frères. [Lyon]: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon; [Paris]: In Fine, 2021. page number: Reproduced: P. 243, cat. no. 270 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2000.17/2000.17_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2000.17/2000.17_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2000.17/2000.17_full.tif