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Description: | This small portrait is evidence of the growing interest in all things eastern from the late seventeenth century onwards. Although this painting is difficult to date, as it bears no inscription and is not of a specific enough sitter to help to establish a time of production, the style in which it is painted suggests the artist was working between the mid-eighteenth century and early nineteenth century, when interest in exoticism was particularly strong. The portrait shows a very pretty young man in his early teens. He is painted looking over his shoulder in rather a coquettish manner; this, in addition to his beautiful grey eyes, arched eyebrows and sensual mouth, may suggest a homoerotic subtext. | Subjects: | portrait | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: French School Æ Attributed to | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8545... | Go to resource |
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