# Claude-Louis Desrais's contemporaries

Artist galleries · hang 749 · 8 works

A few works by Claude-Louis Desrais, then their contemporaries: makers of the same nationality born within 25 years of them, then works from the same century and place.

The rooms are imagined; every work on their walls is real.

## With their contemporaries

1. [An Old Woman Spinning](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/an-old-woman-spinning-si-chndm-1931-64-204), Claude-Louis Desrais, 1810–30. Courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-claude-louis-desrais/an-old-woman-spinning-si-chndm-1931-64-204?hang=749)
2. [Ancient Ruins on the Bank of the Tiber](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/ancient-ruins-on-the-bank-of-the-tiber-nga-110206), Augustin Pajou, 1752/1756. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-claude-louis-desrais/ancient-ruins-on-the-bank-of-the-tiber-nga-110206?hang=749)
3. [Portrait of Mademoiselle Marie-Anne Adelaide Le Normand](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/portrait-of-mademoiselle-marie-anne-adelaide-le-normand-cma-103820), François Dumont, c. 1793. Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-claude-louis-desrais/portrait-of-mademoiselle-marie-anne-adelaide-le-normand-cma-103820?hang=749)

## Their contemporaries

4. [The Death of Socrates](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/the-death-of-socrates-met-436105), Jacques-Louis David, 1787. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-claude-louis-desrais/the-death-of-socrates-met-436105?hang=749)
5. [Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet (1761–1818) and Marie Marguerite Carraux de Rosemond (1765–1788)](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/self-portrait-with-two-pupils-marie-gabrielle-capet-1761-181-met-436840), Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, 1785. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-claude-louis-desrais/self-portrait-with-two-pupils-marie-gabrielle-capet-1761-181-met-436840?hang=749)

## Their contemporaries, second

6. [Le roi, le milan, et le chasseur (The King, the Kite, and the Hunter)](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/le-roi-le-milan-et-le-chasseur-the-king-the-kite-and-the-hun-nga-55536), Benoît-Louis Prévost, published 1759. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-claude-louis-desrais/le-roi-le-milan-et-le-chasseur-the-king-the-kite-and-the-hun-nga-55536?hang=749)
7. [L'heureuse fécondité](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/l-heureuse-fecondite-nga-32677), Nicolas Delaunay, 1777. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-claude-louis-desrais/l-heureuse-fecondite-nga-32677?hang=749)
8. [Farmer Requesting Permission to Marry a Nobleman's Daughter](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/farmer-requesting-permission-to-marry-a-nobleman-s-daughter-aic-262600), Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, 1761. Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-claude-louis-desrais/farmer-requesting-permission-to-marry-a-nobleman-s-daughter-aic-262600?hang=749)

## Doors

- [More Neoclassicism](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/neoclassicism?hang=749&via=continue) (109 works)
- [18th-century France](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/18-france?hang=749&via=continue) (75 works)