> 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
