Portrait of Alphonse Leroy
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Portrait of Alphonse Leroy
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Portrait of Alphonse Leroy is a 1783 oil-on-canvas portrait of doctor and man-midwife Alphonse Leroy by the French Neoclassical artist Jacques-Louis David. It is now in the Musée Fabre in Montpellier, which bought it in 1829. The painting shows its subject looking towards the spectator and leaning on a closed copy of Hippocrates' Morbi mulierum, a work on women's illnesses. On the desk is a 'lampe à quinquet', invented by Leroy himself. Together the lamp and book make reference to Cesare Ripa's
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Painting by Jacques-Louis David
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_Alphonse_Leroy
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2024-03-21T01:29:38Z
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