Well for one, a man would not hold his "thang" like that to pee. His coat may be turned back but his vest isn't. And the way his body is angled his "thang" must be somewhat long. Most paintings that I have seen from this period are more like the chair painting then the clean concise piss pot one but I have seen exceptions to common painting styles in other eras so perhaps the piss pot could be an exception for this era. Anyone know who the artist is?
De -----Original Message----- But that would suggest that the repainting was very recent -- since modern color photography -- or we would not have both images. Unlikely, that. Two possibilities I can think of: -- The alterations were made only for a photographic version, not on the painting itself, possibly photoshopped on. I have seen such bowdlerizing done for pictures that are, say, reproduced in children's books or other venues where naughty bits are not acceptable. Somehow, then, bildindex picked up the doctored version by mistake, but the owning museum shows the correct image. -- They are two different paintings, one being a copy of the first (or both copies of another), and only one was repainted. It was actually quite common for artists, or their workshops, to produce multiple versions of a popular scene; you see this as far back as the 15th century Flemish artists. This would be a very good copy -- it seems identical -- except for possibly the hands of the fiddler (both left and right hands) which seem a bit different. The color overall is muddier, too, which may reflect worse deterioration in this particular painting, or may just reflect the photo quality or the scan. --Robin _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
