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Twitter has a mind of its own when choosing images out of blog posts, so here's a link to my review with the cover of the book discussed rather than the irrelevant afterthought. Hint: it's about women artists...
https://t.co/1FHEewjRrg
This has been one of the most complicated bits of sleuthing I have done, and links playing cards, bills of exchange, bigamy, Rétif de la Bretonne and Pauline Auzou. I ignore breast-feeding and Rousseau https://t.co/c2rD6Vs0bE
The Valade sold today of Mme de Gourgue is probably of the mother, née Claire de Lamoignon. Her son, in the Flagler Museum, is shown as a hunter: his father was murdered by poachers 10 years before while hunting
Not all the best La Tours are in the Louvre or Saint-Quentin. There are great examples in US museums and elsewhere in Europe - such as this astonishing portrait of the maréchal de Saxe in Dresden: https://t.co/LDRXVNV4iJ