From: "Bob W"
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
Uhhhhh ... right. When was the last time you visited an ophthalmologist?
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