Égalité - Henry Bacon (1889) (upload.wikimedia.org)
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Soot ink and various paints on vellum.
A Persian miniature - similar to western illuminated manuscripts. Border art and framing integral to piece.
Artist: Georges de La Tour (French, Vic-sur-Seille 1593–1652 Lunéville)...
Painted as a prize for the Panathenaic Games. Reverse depicts a foot race
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Unfinished and Da Vinci’s only known male portrait, oil on walnut.
Purchased by Bernard Berenson for Isabella Stewart Gardner in 1869 and was displayed at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston before its theft in 1990; it remains missing.
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/2073256...