Artist
Dupre Jean Baptiste
Dupre Jean Baptiste is an artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Historical & Ethnological Society of Greece.
Jean-Baptiste Dupre kept a small mirror on his easel so he could glance up and check his own face while he painted other people’s. He never left his Paris street—Rue du Marché aux Chevaux—except to deliver portraits, yet his brush found details even the subjects missed: the nick in the barber’s left thumb, the way a widow’s lace veil frayed at the hem. Try his 1823 portrait of Themistocles Visvizis; the Greek captain’s coat buttons strain like he’s just swung aboard ship, while the background stays cool and flat so your eye stays on him.
