Joseph Duplessis
Joseph Siffred Duplessis ( Joseph Siffrein Duplessis, born September 22, 1725 in Carpentras, † April 1, 1802 in Versailles) was a French painter. He lived for four years in Rome as a student of Pierre Subleyras, after his return to France he created especially portraits of members of the court.
His father was a surgeon named Joseph -Guillaume Duplessis, who gave up his job to devote himself to painting can. After his first artistic training from his father, he went with Joseph Imbert for four years in teaching. From 1744 to 1748 Duplessis lived in Rome, where he studied with Pierre Subleyras and continue friends with Joseph Vernet. Back in his homeland, he received first orders of nobles of the region, in 1751 he moved to Lyon in 1752 and from there to Paris. Here Duplessis is likely to have made up his mind to specialize in portraiture. Only in 1764, his pictures were exhibited publicly in 1769 he was admitted to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, the same year he scored his breakthrough at the Salon. Until 1789, he received numerous public contracts; parallel, he was promoted to the Academy, where he was in 1780 appointed Conseiller. After the French Revolution, the public contracts did not materialize. The Commission des monuments of the new government commissioned Duplessis in 1794 to catalog the works of art of the district Carpentras and 1796, he was appointed curator of the museum at the Palace of Versailles. He continued in this position until his death in 1802.
Works
Official Portrait of Louis XVI. (1777 )
Benjamin Franklin ( 1778)
Joseph -Marie Vien (1784 )
Benjamin Franklin ( 1785 )
Marie -Louise of Savoy - Carignan, princesse de Lamballe