Juive de Tanger
Juive de Tanger c1874 by Belgian Painter Jean-François Portaels (1818 – 1895); Paentiwr Portreadau Arddull Oriental.
This is an elegant portrait of a young Jewish lady from tangier that is in a thoughtful seated pose as she looks off into the distance at her right.
She is wearing a blue silk kerchief on her hair with an orange and light blue cloth on top of that with a silver floral brooch attached to the top and three silver buttons attached to the side.
She is also wearing large orb and teardrop gold earrings, double row gold orb necklace with a ruby at the center, a gold breast plate; as well as a turquoise gold ring on the middle finger of her left hand.
Finally she is wrapped in a large white shawl with stripe patterns of white cloth and white silk weave.
Dyma atgynhyrchiad hen feistr celf ddigidol wedi'i ailfeistroli o ddelwedd parth cyhoeddus sydd ar gael fel print cynfas ar-lein.
Gwybodaeth Islaw sy'n Deillio o Wikipedia.org
Ganed Jean-François ym mwrdeistref Gwlad Belg Fflemaidd Brabant Vilvoorde, i faer Vilvoorde bragwr cyfoethog; a threuliodd lawer o'i amser yn tyfu i fyny yn darlunio golygfeydd o'i dref enedigol.
Yn 1836 anfonodd ei dad ef i'r Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts ym Mrwsel; a sefydlwyd yn 1711 ac astudiodd o dan yr arlunydd o Wlad Belg, François-Joseph Navez (1787 – 1869), who himself was a student of the famous Neoclassical French painter Jacques-Louis David (1748 – 1825).
Five years later Jean-François journeyed to Paris and enrolled at the French Academy, Ecole des Beaux-Arts to continue his studies; studying in his spare time the old masters in the Louvre, as well as visiting the Paris Salons for inspiration and to research artistic trends in France.
At the time Orientalism was becoming a popular trend in the arts, and this had an influence on Jean-Francois; also at this time he became a student of the historical French painter Paul Delaroche (1797 – 1856).
Yn 1842 on his return to Belgium he won the Grand Prix de Rome, and the money he made from this win allowed him to travel to Italy; where he visited Venice, Florence and Rome, and then later to Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Judea, Sbaen, Hungary and Norway.
During this trip he had the ability to paint portraits of some of the prominent individuals at the time, such as the Viceroy of Egypt.
Wedi 5 years Jean returned to Belgium and accepted the appointment as the director of the Academy in the Flemish Municipality of Ghent.
Jean-Francois was a prolific and versatile artist that painted across a broad spectrum of genres, including historical paintings, biblical paintings, portrait paintings, landscape paintings, paentiadau genre a phaentiadau Dwyreiniol ynghyd â phortreadau oedd ei brif ffocws.