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Joseph Siffred Duplessis
A Life Etched in Likeness: The World of Joseph-Siffred Duplessis Joseph-Siffred Duplessis, a name perhaps less immediately recognizable than some of his contemporaries, nevertheless occupies a pivotal position in the history of 18th-century French portraiture. Born in Carpentras in 1725, he wasn’t born into an established artistic dynasty but rather a family where creativity simmered beneath the surface of practical life; his father, a
surgeon, possessed a keen amateur interest in painting and provided young Joseph with his earliest instruction. This grounding in observation – the precise rendering required by medical illustration – would prove invaluable to Duplessis’s later success. He continued his formal training under Joseph Gabriel Imbert, a pupil of Charles Le Brun, absorbing the established academic techniques before venturing to Rome between 1744 and 1747.…
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