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| Louis-Léopold Boilly Girl at a Window ca. 1800-1820 oil on canvas (grisaille imitating a mounted engraving) National Gallery, London |
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| Louis Gauffier Nine Sample Portraits ca. 1801 oil on canvas Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham |
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| Claude-Marie Dubufe Portrait of Eliza Chichester ca. 1820 oil on canvas Burton Constable Hall, Skirlaugh, Yorkshire |
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| Robert Lefèvre Portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte 1812 oil on canvas Wellington Collection, Apsley House, London |
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| François Gérard Portrait of Joseph Bonaparte, King of Spain ca. 1810 oil on canvas Wellington Collection, Apsley House, London |
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| François Gérard Portrait of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1814 oil on canvas Government Art Collection, London |
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| Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Portrait of a Young Woman ca. 1805 oil on canvas Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston-upon-Hull |
According to the Script
Encounter with a friend, acquaintance
or just someone in a bar
is merely a pretext to display
your theory of what you are.
Absorbed in your own performance
you applaud or criticise,
and only to watch your reflection
do you look into his eyes.
Or, if a contrast's noticed,
it's to serve as a backcloth
useful for the setting
and to show your costume off.
He thought you concentrating
when you were running through
your lines rehearsing gestures
while waiting for your cue.
Still soliloquising you said goodbye,
went on, and never knew
that the stranger, the other
had been speaking to you.
– Veronica Forrest-Thomson (1971)
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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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| Robert Lefèvre Portrait of Pauline Bonaparte, Princess Borghese 1806 oil on canvas Wellington Collection, Apsley House, London |
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| Jean-Baptiste Regnault Portrait of Jean-François Regnault, son of the artist 1815 oil on panel Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| François Gérard Portrait of Maria Laetitia Ramolino Bonaparte, known as Madame Mère (Napoleon's mother) ca. 1800-1804 oil on canvas Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Horace Vernet An Eastern Trader ca. 1830-45 oil on canvas Wallace Collection, London |
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| Claude-Marie Dubufe The Surprise (posed after the Medici Venus) ca. 1827 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes Landscape with a Man frightened by a Snake 1817 oil on canvas Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham |
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| Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes Landscape, Storm 1817 oil on canvas Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham |