QUEER STORY OF A PICTURE
v .. : ;; ; " »—."■. ■■ ■■; , -BruMelß is preparing to celebrato the centtnwy of the death in that city of the • celebrated French painter Louis Davidj whose pictures cover many yards of tb« Louvre picture galleries in Paris (sayi an "Evening Standard" writer), Driven out of his own country when Napoleon fell, the artist, responsible for so many pictures recording the splendours of the Empire, went in for portrait painting in Belgium, where he' took refuge. Recently a "David" portrait was offered for Mia to » Belgian State museum. The comniiwion of artists appointed to examine the work noticed that there was something queer about the canvas. The picture was called the Portrait," but depicted a single old lady sitting in an armchair much too big for her, and belonging to a period at least thirty years later than David's death. The commission appointed to consider the matter did not recommend purchase, but asked the family for an explanation of its strange condition.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 71, 24 March 1926, Page 11
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162QUEER STORY OF A PICTURE Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 71, 24 March 1926, Page 11
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