The growing popularity of portraits among European elites, and the consequent increase in the number of orders, encouraged many artists to take up the practice in various formats: miniature, painting and engraving and to make use of new mechanical devices, such as the Physionotrace system invented by Gilles-Louis Chrétien in 1783-84, that enabled faster production. This exhibition allows us to follow some of the main routes of the renewal of the portrait over the course of a century, between 1750 and 1850.


CURATOR
Alexandra Gomes Markl