The development of European portraiture 
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In the eighteenth century, the development of portraiture continued, which began in the Renaissance, because a portrait, especially a ceremonial one, gave the artist a good income.
The more flattered the author to the customer through paintings highlighting its most attractive features and overshadowing the shortcomings, the noble person remained all the more pleased, and therefore, the fee was great. But there were also such brave painters who were not afraid of the wrath of the powerful of this world, and depicted a person as he really is. This was the Spanish artist Francisco Goya, and his most famous work in this regard is “Portrait of the Family of Charles IV”:
His portrait masters appear in England (Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough) and in France. The most talented French portrait painter is called Jacques-Louis David. Among his most famous works are the sublimely romantic painting Napoleon Bonaparte at the St. Bernard Pass and the incomparable Portrait of Madame Recamier. Another great Frenchman is Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, who became famous for his elegant ceremonial portraits in sonorous colors. French artists have always been famous for their revolutionary breakthroughs in the styles and directions of art, but none of them ignored such a genre as a portrait. This is the realist Camille Corot, and the Impressionists Edgar Degas and Auguste Renoir, and the Post-Impressionist Paul Cezanne.
Speaking of European portraiture, one cannot forget about the work of Pablo Picasso. At the beginning of the twentieth century, this artist experienced the so-called “blue period”, and all of his paintings are made in shades of blue and blue. This color meant for Picasso grief, loneliness and doom. An example is the portrait of the poet H. Sabatines, who was a friend of the artist. Later portraits of the brush by Pablo Picasso were painted in the traditional cubist style, which is characterized by the decomposition of the object into separate geometric shapes and shapes.