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| Louis-Léopold Boilly Portrait of Madame Saint-Ange Chevrier 1807 oil on canvas Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
Nationalist Opera
It was a party
Built for the minuscule elite
Lost amid acres of scuffed marble, wanderers
Newspapers & schoolwork
People knew
To speak in surreal, mechanical hyperbole
Government, of course
Monuments, behemoths
Of relative luxury
I know what you want to ask
I want you to take the truth to the world
Down in the city, loudspeakers
Disappearing into a hidden gulag
Centuries ago
The monks appeared
Every morning in the lobbies of our hotels
A minder was beside them
The monks followed us out into the parking lot
– Amanda Calderon (2014)
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| Robert Lefèvre Portrait of a Lady in Court Costume ca. 1810 oil on canvas Wellington Collection, Apsley House, London |
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| François Gérard Louise-Antoinette-Scholastique Guéhéneuc, Duchesse de Montebello, with her Children 1814 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
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| Pierre-Paul Prud'hon Louise-Antoinette-Scholastique Guéhéneuc, Duchesse de Montebello ca. 1810 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Eugène Devéria Portrait of Madame Jules-Antoine Droz 1833 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
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| Théodore Chassériau La Comtesse de La Tour-Maubourg 1841 oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Portrait of Philibert Rivière ca. 1804-05 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Ferdinand-Philippe, Duc d'Orléans 1842 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Edgar Degas Stefanina Primicile Carafa, Marchioness of Cicerale and Duchess of Montejasi 1868 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Auguste Renoir Portrait of Madame Claude Monet ca. 1872-74 oil on canvas Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon |
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| Henri Fantin-Latour Portrait of Madame Léon Maître 1882 oil on canvas Brooklyn Museum |
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| Jules Bastien-Lepage Study for a Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt before 1884 oil on canvas Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
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| Albert Dubois-Pillet Portrait of Monsieur Pool 1887 oil on canvas Indianapolis Museum of Art |
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| Jacques-Émile Blanche Portrait of Marcel Proust 1892 oil on canvas Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Édouard Manet Portrait of Antonin Proust 1880 oil on canvas Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio |