[Leica] IMG: Wayback Photo & Painting

[Douglas Barry]

Interesting subconscious prompting, Alan. I see that the latest 
viewpoint on Villiers' painting is that it is a selfie - per that o so 
reliable fount of all knowledge Wikipedia. But, going on the pose , it's 
a reasonable argument.
Douglas

On 20/12/2023 18:55, Alan Magayne-Roshak via LUG wrote:
> I found another pairing in my files.  It's "Marie Josephine Charlotte du
> Val d'Ognes" by Marie Denise Villiers, 1801 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
> and a photo of an Art History student in Mitchell Hall that I took in
> 1979.  The artwork must have been in the back of my mind when I came across
> the scene down the hall from the Art History department (where I got my
> degree in 1972).  For years, this painting was attributed to Jacques-Louis
> David.
>
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Work/Villiers_amp_19790601_MR_CS_5855a.jpg.html