Detail View: The AMICA Library: Count Jean-Antoine Chaptal
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AMICA ID:
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CMA_.1964.54
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AMICA Library Year:
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1998
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Object Type:
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Paintings
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Creator Name:
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Gros, Antoine-Jean
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Creator Nationality:
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European; French
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Creator Role:
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artist
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Creator Dates/Places:
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1771 - 1835
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Gender:
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M
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Antoine-Jean Gros
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Title:
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Count Jean-Antoine Chaptal
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Title Type:
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Primary
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View:
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Full View
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Creation Date:
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1824
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Creation Start Date:
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1824
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Creation End Date:
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1824
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Materials and Techniques:
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oil on canvas
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Dimensions:
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Unframed: 136.5cm x 114.3cm
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Cleveland Museum of Art
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Owner Location:
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Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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ID Number:
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1964.54
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Credit Line:
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Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
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Inscriptions:
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Signed lower left: "Gros/1824"
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Rights:
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Context:
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This portrait commemorates Count Chaptal's long career in public service by showing papers and filing boxes designating various French institutions that he advanced, such as the Museum of the Louvre, hospitals, and prisons. A chemist by training, Chaptal (1756-1832) excelled in applying science to the development of industry and art, serving as minister of the interior, legislator, and member of the Academy of Science, whose embroidered dress suit he wears. Using the old-fashioned portrait format of a man seated at a desk surrounded by symbols of authority, Gros suggests something of his sitter's monumental accomplishments by depicting the count over life size.
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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CMA_.1964.54.tif
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