Tag: Desdemona
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07 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, The beautiful and damned women of history
Théodore Chassériau, 1819-1856 MARY STUART SWEARING REVENGE Oil on canvas 25 1/2 by 21 1/4 in Private Collection While Chassériau’s precise inspiration for Mary Stuart Swearing Revenge is unknown, it is possible that the work was based on Friedrich Schiller’s play of 1800 or Donizetti’s opera, Maria Stuarda, written in 1845. It has been suggested…
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06 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #18
JOHN SINGER SARGENT (FLORENCE, 1856 – 1925, LONDON) MADAME GAUTREAU DRINKING A TOAST, c. 1882-1883 Oil on panel 32 x 41 cm (12 5/8 x 16 1/8 in.) Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Madame Pierre Gautreau, born Virginie Avegno (1859–1915), was Madame X, the statuesque sitter in Sargent’s most notorious portrait (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New…