Gods and Foolish Grandeur
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Life And The Arts...From A Retrograde Perspective
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Girl with an Oil Lamp at a Window, by Gerrit Dou, circa 1645-75. Marie Fargues, wife of the artist, in Turkish costume, by Jean-Étienne Liotard, circa 1756-58. Portrait of an Old Lady, Possibly Elisabeth Bas, attributed to Ferdinand Bol, circa 1640-45. Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen of Holland, by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson, circa 1805-09. Marie de' Medici, consort of Henri IV, King of France, by Frans Pourbus the Younger (workshop of), circa 1590-1620. Old Woman Saying Grace, also known as The Prayer without End, by Nicolaes Maes, circa 1656. An Old Woman Reading, probably the Prophetess Hannah, by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1631. All these photographs are believed to have been taken in the south of France, circa first half of the 1920s. With his wife, née Princess Irina Paley, and her sister, Princess Natalia Paley, later the wife of couturier Lucien Lelong. With his brother (on the left) Prince Nikita Alexandrovich. Cavalier ( ), by Édouard Manet (apparently finished by another hand), circa 1875. Shah Jahan on Horseback, page from the Shah Jahan Album, portrait by Payag, circa 1630. "Sacrifice", one of the two "Arts of War" sculptural groups flanking the Arlington Memorial Bridge, by Leo Friedlander, circa 1929-30, cast 1950-51. Equestrian portrait of Saint Louis of France (King Louis IX), by Jacopo Ligozzi, circa last quarter of the 16th century-first quarter of the 17th.