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Description: | This oval-format, all' antica portrait of a boy, once thought to be James Frances Edward Stuart as Prince of Wales, shows the sitter in a fashionable seventeenth-century portraiture style in which he is portrayed as a hero from antiquity. The sitter wears a mixture of contemporary fashion, such as his wig, white shirt and cravat, with pretend Roman dress, such as his toga, pulled over a tunic with embroidered and jewelled lambrequins, and the sword with an eagle-head hilt. The boy rests his left hand on his dog, which represents loyalty in the portrait. | Subjects: | animal (dog); portrait | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: French School Æ Attributed to Previously attributed to manner of Largillière, Nicolas de (French painter and draftsman, 1656-1746) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8572... | Go to resource |
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