Word: hacquin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dark hair and eyes, Gallic chic. Her property dowry included a painting of a gentle faced brunette whose bosom plumply filled her brick-red velvet bodice. The painting was on two layers of canvas, bore on the back the inscription: "Taken from the wood and put on canvas by Hacquin at Paris, 1777."* It had been acquired by the Lardoux family from an aide of Napoleon Bonaparte. Mile. Lardoux owned it with joy, because, in 1916, Georges Sortais, French connoisseur, had pronounced it in writing to be the work of Leonardo da Vinci...
...Hacquin restored paintings for French monarchs...
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