Jean-Marie-Nicolas BRALLE (1785-1863)

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Jean-Marie-Nicolas BRALLE (1785-1863)
Frightened Mother and Child, ca. 1825 Canvas, signed lower left corner "J. Bralle" 85 x 71 cm (Restoration, re-canvas) Period frame Bibliography: Cat. exp. Visages de l'effroi - Violence et fantastique de David à Delacroix, Paris, Musée de la Vie Romantique, 2015-2016 Son of Nicolas Bralle, hydraulic engineer, Jean-Marie-Nicolas Bralle is a French history painter, architect and sculptor. A student of Prud'hon, he exhibited at the Salon from 1810 to 1850. He painted many portraits, notably the official portraits of members of the royal family, Charles X, the Duke of Angoulême, the Duke of Orléans, as well as works with religious or historical subjects. He also painted The Fountain of the Châtelet, known as the Fountain of the Palm Tree, built on Napoleon's orders between 1806 and 1808. This unpublished painting illustrates the episode of the Massacre of the Innocents, where a frightened mother holding her sleeping child in her arms flees the drama evoked in the background by the glow of a fire. The theme was very popular at the time among Romantic artists, who liked to evoke feelings such as Fear, Terror, Fright, etc. through the figure of the Mater Dolorosa.
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