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| Giovanni Boldini Portrait of Lilia Monti née Contessa Magnoni 1864-65 oil on canvas Museo Boldini nel Castello Estense di Ferrara |
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| Giovanni Boldini Ladies of the First Empire 1875 oil on panel private collection |
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| Giovanni Boldini Portrait of a Dandy (formerly identified as Toulouse-Lautrec) ca. 1880-90 pastel on paper Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena |
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| Giovanni Boldini Portrait of John Singer Sargent ca. 1890 oil on panel private collection |
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| Giovanni Boldini At the Piano ca. 1890 oil on canvas Pinacoteca della Città Metropolitana di Bari |
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| Giovanni Boldini Portrait of Robert de Montesquiou 1897 oil on canvas Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Giovanni Boldini Portrait of a Gardener 1897 oil on panel (painted on the inside of the lid of a wooden paint box) Museo Boldini nel Castello Estense di Ferrara |
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| Giovanni Boldini Portrait of Contessa Beatrice di Byland 1901 oil on canvas Museo Frugone, Genoa |
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| Giovanni Boldini The Page 1901 oil on canvas Museo Frugone, Genoa |
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| Giovanni Boldini Portrait of Ava Lister née Astor, Baroness Ribblesdale 1905 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Giovanni Boldini Portrait of Rita Hernandez de Alba de Acosta Stokes Lydig 1911 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Giovanni Boldini Portrait of Madame Juillard in Red 1912 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Giovanni Boldini Portrait of Madame Michelham 1913 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Giovanni Boldini Élégante à la robe bleu before 1914 oil on canvas Fondation Bemberg, Toulouse |
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| Giovanni Boldini Portrait of Olivia Concha de Fontecilla 1916 oil on canvas Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara |
Boldini's style as a portraitist as sampled here spans fifty years. Though he lived on into the Great Depression, nearly reaching the age of ninety, Boldini's career became a minor casualty of World War I. From sober, academically correct beginnings, he had gradually evolved a dashing and advanced portrait style that attracted all fashionable Europe (including many rich American visitors and transplants). Yet the competition for dashing and advanced taste in the unfettered post-war world of the 1920s rather inundated the elderly painter, and he quietly accepted retirement.