Louis d'Orléans Showing Off His Mistress is an oil painting on canvas produced in 1825–1826 by the French artist Eugène Delacroix, now in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid. It shows Louis I, Duke of Orléans, his chamberlain Albert Le Flamenc and Mariette d'Enghien, who was both Le Flamenc's wife and the Duke's mistress.[1] The painting draws on an episode recounted in both Prosper de Barante's Histoire des ducs de Bourgogne de la maison de Valois and Brantôme's Vie des dames galantes.[2] It shows strong influence from Rubens and Titian as well as from Richard Parkes Bonington, a British artist with whom he actively swapped ideas and sketches between 1825 and 1828.
References
edit- ^ (in French) Alain Daguerre de Hureaux, Delacroix, Paris, Hazan, 1993 (ISBN 2 85025 324 3), pages 66 and 123
- ^ (in French) Barthélemy Jobert, Delacroix, Paris, Gallimard, coll. « Monographie », 1997, 335 p. (ISBN 2 07 011516 X, notice BnF no FRBNF36190301), pages 101–102
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