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LA NEUVILLE, Jean Louis (1748-1826)                 
French School.

"PORTRAIT DU CONVENTIONNEL, RUAMPS DE SURGERES, DEPUTEDE LA CHARANTE INFERIEURE"

Oil: 25-1/2"  21-1/2"

Signed lower right: "La Neuville, élève de David, 1792".

Collections:  Chéramy.
M. Lévesque.

Exhibited: "Exposition David et ses Eleves", Palais des Beaux-Arts, April 7 - June 9, 1915, page 52, No. 194.
"Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition - The Beginnings of Modern Painting, France, 1800-1910", Joslyn Memorial 
Art museum, Omaha, Oct. 4 - Nov. 4, 1951, and mentioned in catalogue.

Bibliography: In the catalogue "Exposition David et ses Elèves", Palais des Beaux-Arts, April 7 - June 9, 1913, page 52, No. 194.

Notes: The artist was born in Paris and was chiefly a portrait painter whose success was considerable.

Amongst others, his paintings are owned by:-
The Louvre: Portrait of a prelate.
Musee Versailles: Robert le conventionnel, Joseph Delaunay, etc.

Musee Carnavalet: Minister of the Interior, J. B. Paré.
Musee de Troyes: Mme. Mad. Camus, etc.

(refer also to:  Dict. General des Artistes de l'école francais by Bellier de la Chavignerie; and
E. Bénézit, Dictionnaire des Peintres....; and 
Thieme - Becker, Künstler Lex.)