{"title":"Small Antique Paintings from the 17th to the 19th Century","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA small antique painting is not a small work.\u003c\/strong\u003e The cabinet picture was the format in which a painter worked closest to the eye, on panel, on copper, on vellum or on a fine canvas, and it was valued accordingly in its own time. Nothing gathered here is a study or an offcut.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe selection runs from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth and crosses every subject, from Old Master panels and court portraits to landscapes, dog portraits and devotional scenes, most of them signed and many in their period frames. These are pictures made to be hung close, in a stair, a study or a dressing room, or gathered with others on a single wall.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"chaplin-labrador-puppy-portrait-oil-panel-1882","title":"Charles Joshua Chaplin (1825-1891), Portrait of a Puppy, Signed and Dated 1882, Oil on Mahogany Panel, Framed","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe panel is the background. Bare mahogany, its warm red grain running vertically behind the dog, with no ground laid over it and no paint anywhere it was not needed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOil on mahogany panel, 9 1\/2 x 6 2\/3 inches (24 x 17 cm), 13 x 10 1\/4 inches (33 x 26 cm) framed. Signed lower left and dated 1882 lower right, the last figures covered by the rebate of the frame. French, in a carved and gilded frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA young dog seen close, cut at the chest, its head turned to the viewer. The fawn coat is laid in with broad soft strokes, while the head is modelled with more attention, the dark mask around the eyes and muzzle worked in thin glazes. The ears fall soft against the head and the forelegs are barely indicated, so that everything holds on the gaze.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ctable style=\"width:100%;border:none;border-collapse:collapse;table-layout:fixed;margin:1.5rem 0;\"\u003e\u003ctr style=\"border:none;\"\u003e\u003ctd style=\"border:none;background:#faf7f1;padding:18px 22px;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.5px;letter-spacing:0.09em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#96763f;\"\u003eThe dog's name was Souki\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:15px;line-height:1.7;color:#2c2c2a;\"\u003eThe back of the panel carries a note in ink giving the animal a name, Souki, the family she belonged to, and a date in March 1964 when the picture passed from one hand to another. Eighty years after it was painted, somebody thought it worth writing down who the dog had been. Almost no animal picture of this age still knows its own name.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe mahogany panel carries a vertical split, restored with a cardboard backing at the reverse, and remains slightly curved.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GalerieClub Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57214935400780,"sku":"320","price":3800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/4911\/3420\/files\/chaplin-puppy-portrait-1882-oil-on-mahogany-panel-framed.png?v=1789074395"},{"product_id":"habsburg-portrait-austrian-military-officer-oil-painting-19th-century","title":"Portrait of a Habsburg Officer in Austrian Military Dress, Early 19th Century Oil on Canvas, Framed","description":"\u003ch2\u003ePortrait of a Young Habsburg Officer\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis oil on canvas shows a young man in three-quarter view, wearing a white Austrian military coat with a blue standing collar and a black stock at the neck. A red and orange sash crosses his chest, and a prominent military order is pinned at the left breast, its cross-shaped star surrounded by a decorative surround of dark enamel. Three metal buttons run along the front of the coat. The figure has auburn curly hair, swept forward in the style of the early 19th century, and blue eyes that look steadily past the viewer. The background is a flat olive-green tone that keeps the focus entirely on the figure and his regalia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAustrian Military Portraiture and the Habsburg Imperial Tradition\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the first half of the 19th century, the Habsburg Empire maintained a vast military apparatus, and portraits of officers and members of the imperial family in uniform were a regular commission for court painters and their workshops. These portraits served ceremonial and administrative purposes, hung in barracks, government offices, and the private residences of the officers themselves. The white uniform coat with colored collar facings was the standard Austrian infantry officer's dress, and the accompanying orders and decorations identified the rank and service of the individual. Cabinet-format portraits, typically around 11 by 8 inches, were common for personal display and were often produced in series depicting members of the same regiment or family. This format made them portable and suited to display in a study or private library.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GalerieClub Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57215058936140,"sku":"420","price":2900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/4911\/3420\/files\/Austrian_Empire_Cabinet_Portrait_of_a_Habsburg_Crownlands_Nobleman_-_19th_Century_Vorm_rz_Oil_Painting.jpg?v=1776170096"},{"product_id":"portrait-lord-thomas-howard-after-van-dyck-dutch-oil-painting-19th-century","title":"Portrait of Lord Thomas Howard, After Anthony van Dyck, 19th Century Dutch Oil on Panel, Framed","description":"\u003ch2\u003ePortrait of Lord Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis small oil on panel depicts a man in three-quarter view, wearing a white lace ruff collar and dark clothing. The sitter is Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel, one of the most important English art collectors of the early 17th century. The composition follows Anthony van Dyck's well-known portrait of Howard, with the figure set against a dark background that concentrates attention on the face and collar. The brushwork is firm and controlled, with visible attention to the texture of the lace and the modeling of the face. The warm flesh tones are set off by the deep blacks of the costume and the cool whites of the ruff.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003ch2\u003eVan Dyck Copies and the Dutch Old Master Tradition\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCopying the works of celebrated painters was a central practice in European art training from the Renaissance through the 19th century. Anthony van Dyck, court painter to Charles I of England and one of the greatest portraitists of the Baroque era, was among the most copied artists in the Western canon. His portraits of English aristocrats, including several of Thomas Howard, became reference works studied and reproduced by generations of painters across Europe. In the Netherlands, where Van Dyck had trained under Rubens and first established his reputation, the tradition of copying his portraits remained active well into the 1800s, both as studio exercises and as commissions for collectors who valued the compositions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/galerieclub.com\/blogs\/collecting-guides\/reading-attribution\" style=\"color:#7a1f2b;text-decoration:underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e→ What \"after Van Dyck\" means, and what it does not claim\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GalerieClub Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57215063359820,"sku":"GC-PORT-19-001","price":2800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/4911\/3420\/files\/57_033cbe1b-6d0f-4713-abaf-eaea3a8dab24.png?v=1775671526"},{"product_id":"habsburg-lady-tiara-portrait-austrian-oil-painting-19th-century","title":"Presumed Habsburg Portrait of a Lady with a Jeweled Tiara, Oil on Canvas, Early 19th Century, Gilt Frame","description":"\u003cp\u003eA young woman faces us in the high-waisted dress of the Empire years, a jeweled tiara set in her dark curls and a red shawl draped over her pale blue gown. The lace-edged collar frames her face against a deep olive ground, and the painter has given all his attention to the jewels, the complexion and the quiet self-possession of the sitter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOil on canvas, 9 x 6 inches (23 x 15 cm), framed 12 x 9 inches (30 x 23 cm). Unsigned, Austrian School, early nineteenth century, in a period gilt frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe work belongs to the small-format court portraits painted in the Austrian lands in the first decades of the nineteenth century, made to be kept close, in a study or a private cabinet, rather than displayed in state. The lace is built up in raised white over a fine grey outline, and the tiara in a few dozen touches of pure white on a pink ground, the work of a hand used to painting small.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe gilt frame is water gilded over red bole, which shows through along the ridges and the whole left upright.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA few small losses in the background and the fine age craquelure normal to an early nineteenth century painting. The canvas has never been relined, and remains on its original keyed stretcher with all eight keys in place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA few small losses in the background and the fine age craquelure normal to an early nineteenth century painting. The painting comes from a suite of seven small portraits of the same format and the same hand, presumed to represent members of the Habsburg family. The canvas has never been relined, and remains on its original keyed stretcher with all eight keys in place.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GalerieClub Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57215073583436,"sku":"420","price":3400.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/4911\/3420\/files\/Early_19th_Century_French_Princess_Portrait_-_Oil_on_Canvas_in_Period_Frame_f53005c3-e0f8-4a5c-88bf-268b607c18ee.jpg?v=1776233702"},{"product_id":"leon-printemps-exposition-universelle-paris-oil-panel-1900","title":"Leon Printemps (1871-1945), The Exposition Universelle in Paris, Signed Oil on Wood Panel, 1900, Framed","description":"\u003ch2\u003eThe Exposition Universelle in Paris\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis oil on wood panel shows a view of the Exposition Universelle in Paris, the international fair held in 1900 that drew visitors from across the world. The composition captures the architecture and activity of the event grounds, with warm tones and loose brushwork typical of French Impressionist painting at the turn of the century. The panel is signed, titled, and dated 1900 on the reverse, placing it as a contemporary record of the fair painted on site or shortly after.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Artist\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLeon Printemps (1871-1945) was a French painter who worked in the Impressionist tradition during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is recorded in the Akoun dictionary of listed artists. His subject matter included Parisian views and landscapes, and his work from around 1900 coincides with the period of the Exposition Universelle, one of the largest world fairs ever held in Paris. The fair transformed the city with new structures including the Grand Palais and the Pont Alexandre III, and attracted painters who documented the spectacle firsthand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/galerieclub.com\/blogs\/artist-directory\/printemps-leon-1871-1945\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRead the full biography of Leon Printemps →\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GalerieClub Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57215074337100,"sku":"150","price":1900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/4911\/3420\/files\/Leon_Printemps_signed_oil_painting_of_the_Exposition_Universelle_in_Paris_1900_framed_French_Impressionist_artwork.png?v=1778281589"},{"product_id":"circle-van-diepenbeeck-mary-magdalene-repentant-oil-copper-17th-century","title":"Mary Magdalene Repentant, Circle of Abraham Van Diepenbeeck, 17th Century Flemish Oil on Copper, Period Ripple Frame","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Magdalene is shown half length, her arms crossed over her breast and her eyes raised, her long red gold hair falling loose over her shoulders and covering the body. Behind her to the right stands a wooden cross bearing the INRI titulus, and at the lower edge a glass vessel catches the light, the ointment jar that identifies her. The ground opens into a bare landscape of rock and cloud, painted in soft browns and greys that hold the figure in the centre of the light. The copper support gives the flesh its enamelled smoothness and lets the modelling of the face and hands carry detail that no canvas of this size could hold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe painting bears an attached monogram AD, and a cartouche on the reverse attributes the work to Abraham Van Diepenbeeck. An examination label from Cabinet Turquin, Paris, is attached to the reverse. The copper shows paint loss, light surface marks and small old restorations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe frame is a Flemish ripple moulding in ebonised wood, its surface cut in waves that catch the light across the whole width. Frames of this kind were made in Antwerp in the seventeenth century for exactly this class of small cabinet picture, and they are collected in their own right. It carries a plaque naming Van Diepenbeeck, an old attribution rather than a document of one, and a small gap at the upper left of the reverse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAbraham Van Diepenbeeck (1607-1675) was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and designer of stained glass, born in 's-Hertogenbosch. He trained in Antwerp and became a master in the Guild of Saint Luke in 1636. He worked closely with Peter Paul Rubens and continued in the Antwerp tradition after Rubens died in 1640, producing religious paintings, mythological scenes and designs for prints and for church windows across the Southern Netherlands. His oil paintings on copper are noted for their refined handling and their attention to light on small scale figures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/galerieclub.com\/blogs\/collecting-guides\/reading-attribution\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e→ What \"circle of\" claims, when an old frame plaque says otherwise\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GalerieClub Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57215076958540,"sku":"635","price":5600.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/4911\/3420\/files\/Mary_Magdalene_Repentant_attributed_to_Van_Diepenbeeck_17th_century_oil_on_copper_framed_Flemish_painting.png?v=1778278968"},{"product_id":"flemish-school-putti-musicians-oil-panel-17th-century","title":"A Concert of Putti in a Landscape, Oil on Panel, Flemish School 17th Century, Period Gilded Frame","description":"\u003cp\u003eFive infants make music on a grass bank at the foot of a rocky outcrop. One sits at the left with an open score across his knee. Beside him a second raises a slender pipe to his lips. A third stands at the centre, a length of pink drapery wound about his hips and one arm lifted with the index finger raised, beating time for the others. To the right a fourth plays a shawm with a flared bell, and in the foreground a fifth lies flat on his stomach, head turned out toward the viewer, a second open score on the ground before him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBehind them the ground rises into broken rock and dark foliage. The sky fills the upper third of the panel, grey blue and heavily clouded, with one pale opening at the right where the trees thin out. Against that weight the flesh of the children is the brightest thing in the picture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePainted on a small wood panel in the cabinet tradition, the work belongs to the Flemish school of the seventeenth century. It is presented in a deep gilded frame carved with palmettes and a beaded inner moulding, which shows small losses.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GalerieClub Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57215082168652,"sku":"400","price":4800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/4911\/3420\/files\/57_6b077ca5-5026-4b1d-97c9-da169a3751db.png?v=1775671611"},{"product_id":"man-top-hat-portrait-oil-painting-19th-century-english","title":"English School, Portrait of a Man in a Top Hat, Oil on Canvas, Early 19th Century, Carved Gilt Frame","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe hat is painted flatter than anything else. Pure black, no highlight, no modelling, a single silhouette sitting on a head that is otherwise worked in warm reds and pinks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOil on canvas, 9 x 6 inches (23 x 15 cm), 12 x 9 inches (30 x 23 cm) framed, unsigned. English School, early nineteenth century, in a carved gilt frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA man of middle years seen at half length against a plain brown ground, turned slightly to his right. He wears a tall black hat with a flat brim, a dark coat and a white stock wound high under the chin above a ruffled shirt front. The face is ruddy, the cheeks and nose carrying more red than the rest, and the eyes are set close and level. One hand comes into the lower edge of the picture holding something the paint no longer describes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ctable style=\"width:100%;border:none;border-collapse:collapse;table-layout:fixed;margin:1.5rem 0;\"\u003e\u003ctr style=\"border:none;\"\u003e\u003ctd style=\"border:none;background:#faf7f1;padding:18px 22px;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.5px;letter-spacing:0.09em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#96763f;\"\u003ePainted with his hat on\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:15px;line-height:1.7;color:#2c2c2a;\"\u003eA man sat for his portrait bareheaded. He removed his hat indoors, and every rule of manners said so. This one kept it on, tall and flat brimmed in the shape worn in England between about 1810 and 1830, and had himself painted as he looked in the street rather than in a drawing room. 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The coat is the subject of the picture, laid in with short curling strokes of russet, gold and cream that follow the fall of the mane over the shoulders and the plume of the tail carried to one side. The face is worked more tightly, the flattened muzzle and the wide dark eyes given the frontal attention of a human sitter. The paint is thin and the weave of the ground shows through in places. The dog's name, \"Kit\", is inscribed in the upper left, and the painting is signed in the lower right.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe reverse of the panel carries the stamp of a colour merchant, the supplier who prepared and sold the panel to the painter. Such stamps are among the more useful marks a nineteenth century panel can bear, since the merchants worked from known addresses over known periods and the stamp helps to place the support in time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eErnest Jean Delahaye (1855-1921) was a French painter who exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Francais between 1875 and 1920. 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Cals painted them with real weight. The straw reads as solid, textured mass rather than as a flat shape, and you can see where he built up the surface with short, thick strokes that follow the curve of each stack. The ground around them is a patchwork of green and brown, handled loosely enough that you feel the unevenness of the terrain without seeing any single blade of grass. Behind the stacks, the landscape opens up into a flat, wide horizon under a sky that takes up nearly half the canvas. The sky itself is layered: a warm gray-blue in the upper register that lightens toward the horizon into the kind of pale, luminous band you get in northern France on a late summer afternoon. This is a small painting, but the composition has a sense of space that feels much larger than the canvas. Cals understood how to use a low horizon line and a wide format to give a seven-inch-tall painting the breathing room of a much bigger landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Artist\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdolphe Felix Cals (1810-1880) was a French painter and printmaker who occupies a distinctive position in the history of Impressionism. He began as a student of Leon Cogniet at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and spent years working in a conventional academic manner before gradually shifting toward plein-air painting and the direct study of light that would define his later career. By the 1860s and 1870s he was painting alongside the Impressionists and exhibiting with them. Cals participated in the first Impressionist exhibition of 1874 and continued to show with the group in subsequent years. He was a close friend of Johan Barthold Jongkind and, through him, connected to the wider circle of painters working on the Normandy coast and in the Ile-de-France. His work is held in the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, the Musee des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, and other French public collections. 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Austrian, early nineteenth century, in a period gilt frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA young officer turns three quarters against a dark olive ground, red haired and lightly moustached. He wears the light blue dolman with its ranks of red frogging, a gold laced red waistcoat beneath, and a broad watered sash across the chest, its colours now faded. On the left breast is the star of the Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary, silver rays around a red medallion charged with the white patriarchal cross under a crown, founded by Maria Theresa in 1764. A jewelled badge hangs at the throat on a red ribbon. Nothing else is in the picture at all, which throws everything onto the uniform and the face.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe painter worked at the scale of a miniaturist. Each curl of the red hair is drawn separately, the star is built from thirty individual strokes of white across two centimetres, and the lace at the cuff and the throat is the only raised paint on the canvas. A shadow is thrown behind the fur collar to lift the figure off the ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe frame is narrow and old, water gilt over red bole and burnished by hand, the gilding worn through along the mouldings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe canvas has not been relined and sits on its keyed stretcher with a single crossbar, the paint layer stable with the fine craquelure normal to a canvas of the period.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GalerieClub Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57228495257932,"sku":"420","price":2900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/4911\/3420\/files\/habsburg-hussar-officer-portrait-blue-dolman-19th-century-oil-canvas-gilt-frame.jpg?v=1787480769"},{"product_id":"corchon-y-diaque-woman-portrait-oil-painting-signed-1890-spanish","title":"Corchon y Diaque, Woman in a Wine-Red Silk Cap, Signed and Dedicated Oil on Panel, Late 19th Century, Carved Giltwood Frame","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe cap sits high on the head, its edge cutting straight across the hair, and it is the only colour in the panel. Everything else is grey, black, or the flesh of a face turned down and away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOil on panel, 13 3\/4 x 9 inches (35 x 23 cm), 16 x 11 inches (41 x 28 cm) framed. Inscribed and signed in ink upper right, a dedication to N. Borniche followed by the signature. French, late nineteenth century, in a carved giltwood frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShe is shown in three quarter profile, looking down and to her left, the coil of hair falling behind the neck to the shoulder. A white pleated shirt front rises to the throat and falls in a long V over the chest inside a black jacket, its border laid on in thick white that stands proud of the surface, with a line of stitching drawn across the linen in small dark marks. The flesh is built in fine crossed strokes of a dry brush, the colour of the cheek dropped in over them rather than blended, and the mouth is a single stroke of red. Only the silk and the white front carry any real body of paint. Elsewhere the paint is thin enough that the grain of the wood reads through the grey ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ctable style=\"width:100%;border:none;border-collapse:collapse;table-layout:fixed;margin:1.5rem 0;\"\u003e\u003ctr style=\"border:none;\"\u003e\u003ctd style=\"border:none;background:#faf7f1;padding:18px 22px;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.5px;letter-spacing:0.09em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#96763f;\"\u003eA mon amie\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:15px;line-height:1.7;color:#2c2c2a;\"\u003eThe dedication is written on the face of the panel, in ink, over the finished paint. A painter does not inscribe a commission that way. 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