Portrait of the Villers Family

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This highly symbolic family portrait is conceived almost in a fashion of a memorial. On the eve of the reign of terror that followed the French Revolution, this group, portrayed in the manner of a Dutch master, has the character of a 'memento mori' for a doomed aristocracy.

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About the Artist

Jan Bernard Duvivier

1762 – 1837

Bernard Duvivier was a Flemish/French painter of the Neoclassical period, who was born in Bruges, Flanders, but became a celebrated painter in Paris, where he was appointed professor at the Ecole Normale.

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