POMPEO BATONI (1708-1787) Count Niccoló Soderini (1765) Oil on canvas (134 x 97 cm) Palazzo Barberini, Rome To enlarge the picture, click on it and "Open in a new tab" If Batoni needed to prove that, besides being a superb colourist, he was also a master in the difficult art of reproducing the texture of …
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A Mother and her Daughter
ANTON VAN DYCK (1599-1641) Portrait of Susanna Fourment and her Daughter Clara (1620-22) Oil on canvas 173 x 117 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington DC To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" The sitters have been identified with complete certainty. Susanna Fourment (1599-1628) and her daughter belonged to …
Old Masters 