Portrait of Charles-Pierre Pécoul

Portrait of Charles-Pierre Pecoul

Artist	Jacques-Louis David
Year	1784
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	91.5 cm × 72.5 cm (36.0 in × 28.5 in)
Location	Musée du Louvre, Paris

Portrait of Charles-Pierre Pécoul is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French Neoclassical artist Jacques-Louis David, completed in 1784. The sitter, Charles-Pierre Pécoul, was an official responsible for royal building contracts and the father of the painter's wife Charlotte.^[1]

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The portrait shows Pécoul seated against a dark background, wearing a brown coat with gold buttons and a white cravat. He is depicted in three-quarter view with a composed posture. The restrained use of color and simple background are characteristic of David's early portraiture.^[2]

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^ Co, Art History (2024-01-04). "Portrait of Charles-Pierre Pécoul: Jacques-Louis David". Retrieved 2025-08-23.
^ "Portrait of Charles-Pierre Pecoul (1784) by Jacques-Louis David – Artchive". Retrieved 2025-08-23.

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Related	Marguerite Charlotte Pécoul (wife) Neoclassicism
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French	Anonymous: Diana the Huntress; Gabrielle d'Estrées et une de ses sœurs Benoist: Portrait of Madeleine Boilly: Artists in Isabey's Studio Boucher: The Brunette Odalisque; Diana Bathing; Vulcan Presenting Venus with Arms for Aeneas Champaigne Ex-Voto de 1662; Louis XIII Crowned by Victory Chardin: The Attributes of Civilian and Military Music; The Attributes of Music, the Arts and the Sciences; Boy with a Spinning-Top; The Buffet; The Ray; Saying Grace Chassériau: Aline Chassériau; Portrait of Dominique Lacordaire; Self-Portrait; Susanna and the Elders; The Toilette of Esther; The Two Sisters Claude: Village Fête Corot: The Bridge at Narni; Souvenir de Mortefontaine David: Andromache Mourning Hector; The Coronation of Napoleon; The Intervention of the Sabine Women; Leonidas at Thermopylae; The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons; The Loves of Paris and Helen; Minerva Fighting Mars; Oath of the Horatii; Portrait of Madame Marie-Louise Trudaine; Portrait of Madame Récamier; Portrait of Pope Pius VII; Portrait of Charles-Pierre Pécoul; Self-Portrait Delacroix: The Barque of Dante; The Bride of Abydos; The Death of Sardanapalus; Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople; Liberty Leading the People; Lion Devouring a Rabbit; Mademoiselle Rose; The Massacre at Chios; The Murder of the Bishop of Liège; Orphan Girl at the Cemetery; Portrait of Frédéric Chopin; The Picador; Women of Algiers; A Young Tiger Playing with Its Mother Delaroche: Bonaparte Crossing the Alps; The Children of Edward; The Young Martyr Flandrin: Study (Young Male Nude Seated Beside the Sea) Fragonard: Adoration of the Shepherds; Coresus Sacrificing Himself to Save Callirhoe; The Bolt Géricault: The 1821 Derby at Epsom; The Charging Chasseur; The Raft of the Medusa; The Woman with a Gambling Mania; The Wounded Cuirassier Girodet: The Burial of Atala; Pygmalion and Galatea; Scene from a Deluge Greuze: The Bible Reading; The Broken Vessel; The Father's Curse; The Village Bride Gros: Bonaparte at the Pont d'Arcole; Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa; Equestrian Portrait of Joachim Murat, King of Naples; Napoléon on the Battlefield of Eylau Guérin: Andromache and Pyrrhus; Portrait of a Young Girl; The Return of Marcus Sextus Huet: The Flood of Saint-Cloud; Normandy Thatched Cottage, Old Trouville Ingres: The Apotheosis of Homer; Don Pedro of Toledo Kissing Henry IV's Sword; Grande Odalisque; Joan of Arc at the Coronation of Charles VII; Mademoiselle Caroline Rivière; Oedipus and the Sphinx; Portrait of Madame Marcotte de Sainte-Marie; Portrait of Monsieur Bertin; Roger Freeing Angelica; The Turkish Bath; The Valpinçon Bather La Tour: The Adoration of the Shepherds; The Card Sharp with the Ace of Diamonds; Joseph the Carpenter; Magdalene with the Smoking Flame; Saint Sebastian Tended by Saint Irene Philippe de Champaigne: Ex-Voto de 1662 Poussin: Camillus Handing the Falerian Schoolmaster over to his Pupils; Et in Arcadia ego; The Four Seasons; The Funeral of Phocion; The Inspiration of the Poet; Landscape with Orpheus and Eurydice Quarton: Pietà of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon Robert: Principal Monuments of France; Project for the Transformation of the Grande Galerie du Louvre Scheffer: Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta Appraised by Dante and Virgil Vernet C.: A Mediterranean Port Vernet H. Raphael at the Vatican Vigée Le Brun: Peace Bringing Back Abundance; Portrait of Joseph Vernet; Self-Portrait with Julie (Self-Portrait à la Grecque); Self-Portrait with Julie (Maternal Tenderness) Vouet: Allegory of Wealth; Hesselin Madonna Watteau: The Embarkation for Cythera; The Faux Pas; L'Indifférent; Jupiter and Antiope; Pierrot; The Two Cousins
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Portrait of Charles-Pierre Pécoul

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