De Laval Pierre Louis - 1821 - Girodet Pupil

Pierre Louis DELAVAL 1821 (or De LAVAL dixit Bénezit 1790 - 1881)

Portrait signed and dated lower left, vertically -84 x 73 with frame - 65 x 54.5 without frame -

Very good condition of the canvas - Frame with oval view and flowered spandrels with some lack of pearls -

Neo Classic Painter, pupil of GIRODET, he composed historical and religious subjects without neglecting the portraits in which he developed a palette of soft colors -

The historical galleries of Versailles also owe him many portraits. His talent enabled him to be one of the small number of artists exempted from conscription by imperial decree.

A historical composition by Delaval made on June 22, 2021, an estimate of € 6,000 to € 8,000 at TAJAN -

Present in many institutions: VERSAILLES - GRAND TRIANON - CHATEAU De COMPIEGNE - MUSEE BONNAT… .-

INSCRIPTIONS on the back of the frame: Dechez Louis Alexandre Hippolyte - French Literator known as Jenneaoval 1801 -1830 composed the Brabançonne… .. Belgian Revolution - A monument is dedicated to him in Brussels in 1897 -

Sainte Clotilde exhortant Clovis à embrasser la religion chrétienne, 1817,cathédrale Saint-Louis de Versailles;

Minerve protégeant les arts, 1819,Grand Trianon;

Le Chinois Kan Gao, 1821, Versailles,musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon;

Psyché abandonnée par l’Amour, 1821,musée de Grenoble;

L’Adoration de Jésus, 1824, cathédrale de Saint-Malo;

Jésus et la Femme adultère, 1824,église Saint-Leu de Paris;

La Vierge, 1827, Vannes;

Le Serment de Charles X au sacre, 1828.
Tableau de dimension colossale.

Sainte Céline recevant de sainte Geneviève l’habit de son ordre, 1837,cathédrale de Meaux;

Saint Louis portant l’oriflamme, 1841, Versailles,musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon;

La Justice, la Force, figure allégorique, 1849, chambre du roi à Versailles;

La Vierge et l’enfant Jésus,église Saint-Philippe-du-Roule;

Portrait de l’amiral Bergeret,Bayonne,musée Bonnat

Portrait du vice-amiralJean-Baptiste Philibert Willaumez,Versailles, musée National du Château