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Sunday, February 22, 2026
Model prisoners - portraits by Jacques-Louis David, 1795
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From the beginning, David was a fervent supporter of the French Revolution, one of its greatest visual propagandists, and a regicide who v...
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Friday, July 19, 2024
Imperial splendour... in miniature - two portraits by Jean-Baptiste Fortuné de Fournier, after Winterhalter, 1857
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The Empress Eugénie and Emperor Napoléon III. Miniatures on ivory: 22 x 15cm / 8.66 x 5.90 inches. The emperor's portrait is signed an...
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Friday, February 26, 2021
From oil to clay - terracotta portrait of Juliette Récamier after David, attributed to Clémence Sophie de Sermezy, circa 1825-35
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Juliette Récamier (1777-1849), what we might now refer to as a "professional beauty", was avid in her pursuit of being portrayed b...
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Friday, May 24, 2019
The scabbard as wardrobe - discretions of the "antique"
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In contemporary and later depictions, ancient Greek warriors were most frequently portrayed as going into battle nearly or entirely nude...
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Sunday, December 9, 2018
Déshabillée - when you just can't be bothered to get all the way dressed
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Mefody Lukyanov, by Konstantin Somov, 1918. (Lukyanov was the artist's lover from 1910 to 1932.) Bei der Toilet...
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