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Showing posts with label David. Show all posts

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Venetian Lady

Venetian Lady at Her Toilette (1860) by the French painter Jacques Louis David (1829-1886).

It's a kind of historical scene. But the pose and the rich clothes are a kind of quotation of the great Baroque paintings by Rubens and Titian.