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The result was: promoted by Bruxton (talk) 21:00, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
... that Jacques-Louis David's Portrait of Count Stanislas Potocki from 1781 has been described as one his masterpieces? Source: "David was soon to achieve a total rejection of the Rococo in a trio of masterpieces of 1780-81 executed both before and after his return to Paris from Italy - St Roch, Portrait of Count Potocki, and Belisarius (...)" (Rosenblum, Robert (1973). "David's 'Funeral of Patroclus'". The Burlington Magazine. 115 (846): 575)
ALT1: ... that Jacques-Louis David's Portrait of Count Stanislas Potocki from 1781 marked the return of equestrian portraiture to European painting of the late 18th century? Source: "By the middle of the eighteenth century, equestrian portraits had become scarce. (...) By the end of the century, the genre returned, marked by David's magnificent portrait of Count Potocki." Sandström, Birgitta (1988). "An Equestrian Portrait of the Duc d'Orléans by Alexander Roslin". Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts. 64 (1): 52.