FRENCH LANGUAGE The identical reproduction of the Meuricoffre album, acquired by the Louvre in 2018, is a great opportunity to leaf through one of the only two portrait books attributed to Antoine Jean Gros (the other being in a private collection). A precious testimony to Gros' activity as a portraitist in Italy (1793-1800), it illustrates the privileged relationship that the painter maintained in Genoa with the family of the Franco-Swiss banker Jean-Georges Meuricoffre (1750-1807) and his wife, the famous opera singer Celeste Coltellini (1760-1828). The study accompanying the publication
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