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Gilbert Louis Duprez

Lorenzo Bartolini 1840

This heroic bust-portrait depicts the French tenor Gilbert Louis Duprez, who had a large public following in Italy and France but abandoned the stage in 1849 to devote himself to private and public teaching, also becoming a singing professor at the Paris Conservatory.

Technical information

Author: Lorenzo Bartolini
Title: Gilbert Louis Duprez
Date: 1840
Material and technique: Marble
Size: h 58,5 cm
Location: Palazzo Pretorio Museum
Third Floor

Formerly identified with the Tuscan tenor Ermanno Picchi, the marble was purchased by the State in 1978 from antiquarians Sergio and Patrizio Giaconi and later given to the Prato museum for safekeeping.
Despite the heroic cut, the torso has a rigidly classical approach and is, as in the case of the portrait of Lady Sidney Morgan, unfinished, which can be seen when observing the back of the head, roughly treated and with the curls of the hair barely outlined.