The portrait shows an elegant and wealthy Frenchman, Pierre Seriziat, seated outdoors on top of a rock.

The companion piece, Portrait of Emilie Seriziat, shows a woman in a white dress indoors, holding flowers in one hand and the hand of a child in the other.

Brookner, Anita, Jacques-Louis David, London: Chatto &Windus, 1980; New York, N.Y.: Thames and Hudson, 1980, 1987.

Encyclopædia Britannica Online Academic Edition.

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