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Benjamin West
The Death of General Wolfe (Detail), 1770
oil on canvas
152.6 x 214.5 cm
Transfer from the Canadian War Memorials, 1921 (Gift of the 2nd Duke of Westminster, England, 1918)
National Gallery of Canada (no. 8007)
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Monsieur de Buissy, c. 1780
Joseph Siffred Duplessis
French, 1725
- 1802
oil on canvas
116 x 88.5 cm
Purchased 2009
National Gallery of Canada (no. 42528)
Duplessis captured the spirit of the last decades of the Ancien Régime, brilliantly and frankly recording the likenesses of his contemporaries. His work is marked by a strange sense of heightened reality, as if the every detail of the sitter's appearance drew the artist's focused attention. Family tradition identifies the man as Pierre de Buissy (1737 or 1743 -1787), a noble from Picardy. He appears withdrawn and distant, a reserve appropriate to his status, and also likely a product of Duplessis' studio practice. De Buissy would have offered the painter only a few sittings; Duplessis would then have dressed a mannequin in de Buissy's clothes for the long, painstaking sessions which followed. The frame, likely original, would have been chosen by the artist. Frame: running moulding with carved ornament, gilded. France, original
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