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Comparison with Hans Holbein's Self-portrait RIGHT the Male figure (Arrow LEFT discernible with Black Beret, pink face with fair/red Hair in Brown jacket over a Black Shirt,most probably from such distinctive features,Hans Holbein the Younger,as a tiny 1536 London Self-portrait🧑🎨
The previous post was painted at the same period as "Walter Richard Sickert's Self-portrait of 1907" and shares its identical Palette and Technique. For Ten years Sickert visited Venice 1894-1904 becoming the source for inspiration and some of his most accomplished compositions🧑🎨
When P.P.Rubens"Christ with Crown of Thorns"1614 cited by Rubens authority Emeritus Prof. Julius Held,is compared 1610"Head of Samson"NGLondon "Samsom & Delila",Christ's dynamic lifelike modelling,palette,3D qualities contrast with the flat 2D,lifeless,dull palette of"Samson"🧑🎨
Comparison depiction Dress accoutrements LEFT Rembrandt van Rijn c1645"Anne of Austria"(1601-1666)Signed Monog"RvR"-"Rembrandt's 1645 Self-Portrait"in Eye-Age44yrs"Queen Anne of France"wife Louis XIII,Regent of France son Louis XIV-RIGHT Rubens circa 1626"Anne of Austria"at 25yrs
2. Exhibition of this"Mona Lisa"copy at the Prado, Madrid,Curators attributed this to one of his Pupils, Salai or Melzi.They obviously have little knowledge of either. It's nothing like Salai or work attributed to Melzi. Its face is flawed & expression strange as is its palette🧑🎨
@realjimgoose Compare the National Gallery, London's "Lifeless/Flat Sampson" with this, Rubens dynamic Three Dimensional "Lifelike" Musculature Signed & Dated "Hercules" Panel Original Oil Sketch🎨 for his later larger Composition now in Italy🧑🎨
From when acquired I believed this RIGHT was wrongly attributed to Rubens-National Gallery's"Samson & Delilah"-Lacks 'dynamic bravura' brushwork, musculature,brilliant palette of Rubens LEFT & uniquely distinctive"Rubenesque"faces based on family-More "Studio" or Jacob Jordaens🧑🎨