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17th century French school - Lot 69
17th century French school The invention of painting Callirrhoé and Dibutade. Canvas. Circa 1750 Approx. 160 x 140 cm Accents, dents and restorations In his Natural History, Pliny the Elder takes up the Greek myth of the invention of the portrait. The young Corinthian girl Callirrhoé, daughter of the potter Dibutade, sad to see her beloved leave on a journey, decides to keep a souvenir of him by drawing the outline of his shadow on the wall by the light of a lamp. Her father then applied clay to this drawing to bake it and preserve the portrait of her lover. In this way, she and her father created the first portrait in history, both by painting it on the wall and by creating a relief of the profile. She freezes and invokes the presence of her lover beyond his material reality, through the line of his face.
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