Sentence examples of "portrait" in French

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Il y a un portrait de Bob au mur. There is a portrait of Bob on the wall.
C'est le portrait craché de son père. He is the image of his father.
Le portrait d’un vieil homme était accroché au mur. A portrait of an old man was hanging on the wall.
Tout le monde dit qu'il est le portrait de son père. Everyone says that he is the very image of his father.
Un ami à moi a commissionné un artiste connu pour peindre un portrait de sa femme. A friend of mine commissioned a well-known artist to paint a portrait of his wife.
Toute œuvre d'un homme, que ce soit littérature ou musique ou image ou architecture ou quoi que ce soit d'autre, est toujours un portrait de lui-même. Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or a picture or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Un miroir est mieux que toute une série de portraits d'ancêtres. A mirror is better than an entire row of ancestral portraits.
Ce gosse est le portrait craché de son père. That kid's a chip off the old block.
C'est le portrait craché de son grand-père. He is the picture of his grandfather.
Le portrait de mon grand-père est accroché au mur. My grandfather's picture is on the wall.
Ce portrait est bien réalisé. Ça ressemble tout à fait à maman. This painting is nicely done. It looks just like Mom.
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