Joseph Desire Court
Joseph Desire Court (1797-1865) - a great French painter, famous portraitist and painter of the historical genre. His direction is romantic painting in the form of sentimentalism. Joseph Desire Court was a successful portrait painter both at court and in the highest circles of the aristocracy, as he had a special talent in portrait painting. He also excelled in the field of male portraiture, having written wonderful canvases depicting a whole gallery of the military, as well as his friends and colleagues. With the growing popularity that accompanied his work, the artist's workshop did not stop accepting orders. Among his customers were eminent persons - King Louis-Philippe himself, his sister Adelaide, King and Queen of Denmark, Pope Pius IX, Cardinal Prince de Croix, Archbishop Sibur, Marshals Soult and Pelissier and many others. In the world, the complete catalog of his works includes more than 900 works.
