Portrait of Jacques Necker

Illustration

Harrison W. Mark
by Joseph Duplessis
published on 28 March 2022
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Portrait depicting Jacques Necker (1732-1804), Genevan banker and popular finance minister under King Louis XVI of France prior to the French Revolution. His dismissal in 1789 was one of the catalysts for the Storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789. Oil on canvas, painted by Joseph Duplessis, c. 1781.

Original was exhibited at the Salon of 1783, now in the Château de Coppet.

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