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Born into a family of physicians in Picerno, then in the Kingdom of Naples, Joseph-Nicolas-Blaise Forlenze (1751–1833) was a pioneering ophthalmologist and surgeon based in Paris, where this near life-size portrait of him was exhibited at the Salon of 1808. Fashionably dressed in a long-tailed black coat and wearing aristocratic knee-breeches, Dr Forlenze stands before Mount Vesuvius, which rises over the Bay of Naples. The lighthouse on the right may be on the Molo (dock) in Naples. In front of it, there is a fountain topped with a statue of Saint Januarius, the patron saint of Naples. Facing us directly, Dr Forlenze displays the orders and decorations of the Légion d'Honneur and the Order of St Michel. He became a member of these orders after 1807.
Title
Dr Forlenze
Date
1807
Medium
Oil on canvas
Measurements
H 209.6 x W 128.3 cm
Accession number
NG2288
Acquisition method
Presented by Frédéric Mélé, 1908
Work type
Painting
