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Happy Birthday Degas!

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Happy Birthday to Edgar Degas born on 19 July 1834! " Four Dancers" @ ngadc https://www. nga.gov/collection/gal lery/gg89/gg89-46597.html   … Edgar Degas   1834 - 1917 Four Dancers , c. 1899 oil on canvas 59 1/2" x 70 15/16" National Gallery of Art -Chester Dale Collection photo by Gregg Chadwick

Fragonard's Transformation of "Young Girl Reading"

And now for the big reveal . . . introducing Fragonard’s “Portrait of a Woman with a Book” (simulation)! Our researchers were able to establish that “Portrait of a Woman with a Book” existed as a “complete” painting for at least six months before it was changed into “Young Girl Reading.” The composition once showed a woman with her head turned outwards, looking at the spectator. She wore a large feathered headdress dotted with colored beads, a thinner neck ruffle than in the subsequent painting, and she was illuminated by a frontal light source. An amorphous folding shape in the background behind her was suggested to be a curtain on the basis of precedents in 17th- and 18th-century French portraiture. Read the full story of how we came to this discovery: http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/press/2015/fragonard.html This simulation, generated by cross-referencing various imaging techniques, was created by Gallery staffers Becca Goodman and Denis Doorly. Stay tuned as our three d...

Amber Memory

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