# Portrait of Jacques-Joseph de Cathelineau [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GIRODET DE ROUCY-TRIOSON, Anne-Louis]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 55 x 47 cm ## Commentary Portrait of Jacques-Joseph de Cathelineau c. 1822 Oil on canvas, 55 x 47 cm Private collection In 1816, only a few months after assuming the newly restored French throne, King Louis XVIII commissioned from several artists, including Anne-Louis Girodet, a series of posthumous full-length portraits of generals who had fought for the Royalist cause during the Revolution. The series included the portrait of Jacques Cathelineau \(1759-1793\) for which Girodet received the commission. To ensure the accuracy of the posthumous portrait, Girodet painted the present bust-length portrait of Cathelineau's son, Jacques-Joseph \(1785-1832\). This sketch is full of vitality and character. The final full-length portrait of the father was exhibited in the 1824 Salon. ## Related artworks - [Benoît-Agnes Trioson]() - [François-René de Chateaubriand]() - [La Caucasienne]() - [Mademoiselle Lange as Danaë]() - [Mademoiselle Lange as Venus]() - [Ossian Receiving the Ghosts of French Heroes]() - [Portrait of J. B. Belley, Deputy for Saint-Domingue]() - [Portrait of Joachim Murat]() - [Portrait of Queen Hortense]() - [Scene of the Flood]() - [Self-Portrait]() - [The Entombment of Atala]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()