Thanks Bob W, I thought I remembered some famous painting like that - a boy in fancy dress outfit. But John may be right, it could be easily an early american primitive painting and not a reproduction of a more famous work. Regards, Bob S.
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: >> From: Bob Sullivan >> > Doug, >> > Wow, that's a nice set of photos! I've been thru the flash series >> > several times but like the html version better. Like Christine, I >> > keep coming back to #8. Isn't that an early Matise or Picasso >> > painting above? It is memorable for the subject's odd atire. The >> > whole scene is a sort of echo with the lad in formal dress on the >> > antique sofa. >> > Regards, Bob S. >> >> Stylistically, it's Early American portraiture ... 18th >> century equivalent of getting "Uncle George" to take family >> photos because he has a "real" camera. >> >> The painting is a primitive, un-schooled style - typical of >> itinerant American artists in the late colonial and early >> post colonial period. >> >> If it's a known painter, it might be worth some money, but >> not anything near as much as its value as a family heirloom. >> >> That's somebody's great-great-great-great ... grandma. > > Not necessarily. > > The pose and the dress resemble the Infanta in Las Meninas by Velasquez. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Meninas > > It's worth visiting Madrid just to see that one picture. But you get a whole > load of Velasquez's in the same museum (the Prado), and all the Goyas too! > > Picasso was obsessed by Velasquez and made a lot of very interesting and > extraordinary studies of Las Meninas, which are in the Picasso museum in > Barcelona: > http://www.bcn.cat/museupicasso/en/collection/mpb70-459.html > > Bob > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
