Large Portrait Of A Woman French Romantic 1839 By Pierre-louis Delaval, A Student Of Girodet

Pierre-Louis DELAVAL (1790-1881),
Portrait of a woman with a lace shawl
French Romantic period , Louis-Philippe
Oil on canvas 73 x 60 cm
signed dated vertically lower left
P.L Delavale 1839
Gilded frame with palmettes 93 x 60 cm

Provenance: Château de Nernier

Condition: good condition, age cracks on the dress, stable paint. Some accident retouched on the edges of the frame and the gilding reveals the red plate in some zones.
Good general condition ready to hang.

Biography:
Pierre-Louis DELAVAL is a French painter who was a student of Girodet-Trioson. He began at the Salon of 1810 with two History paintings thanks to which he was exempted from conscription by imperial decree. Delaval painted mainly history and religious subjects. The historical galleries of Versailles also owe him many portraits. He received a second medal in 1817. In 1826, the Ministry of the Interior commissioned the Oath of the Charter, a painting representing one of the key moments of the coronation of King Charles X on 25 May 1825. The work, which has now disappeared, was exhibited at the Hôtel de Ville in Paris, and had to compete with the Coronation of Charles X (Louvre), painted by François Gérard, then First Painter to the King. The artist also took part in the decoration of the Château de Compiègne. Several of his compositions can be seen there: La Force, La Justice and Orphée et Eurydice. He died in Versailles on 25 November 1881.

Notable works in French museums:

Minerve protégée les arts, 1819, Grand Trianon;
The Chinese Kan Gao, 1821, Versailles, National Museum of the Palaces of Versailles and Trianon;
Psyche Abandoned by Love, 1821, Grenoble Museum;
Sainte Clotilde exhortant Clovis à embrace la religion chrétien, 1817, Cathédrale Saint-Louis de Versailles;
The Adoration of Jesus, 1824, Saint-Malo Cathedral;
Jesus and the Adulterous Woman, 1824, Saint-Leu Church in Paris;
The Virgin, 1827, Vannes;
The Oath of Charles X at the Coronation, 1828. A colossal painting.
Saint Celine Receiving the Habit of Her Order from Saint Genevieve, 1837, Meaux Cathedral;
Saint Louis Carrying the Oriflamme, 1841, Versailles, National Museum of the Palaces of Versailles and Trianon;
Portrait of a Lady in Black, 1845, Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle
Justice, Strength, Allegorical Figure, 1849, King's Chamber at Versailles;
The Virgin and the Child Jesus, Saint-Philippe-du-Roule church;
Portrait of Admiral Bergeret, Bayonne, Bonnat museum
Portrait of Vice-Admiral Jean-Baptiste Philibert Willaumez, Versailles, National Castle museum