Word: magdalens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been scientifically confirmed. It remains one of La Tour's masterpieces. Cleaned of grime and later repaints, it has a crispness and specificity of color, like taffeta in spring sunshine; and to see it in a room with seven other La Tours, including the Wrightsman Magdalen and The Musicians' Brawl, is to realize how the traits of style cited against it by detractors-the theatrical "unreality" of costume, the clear, generalized volumes of cylindrical arm or egg-shaped head-actually connect it to the rest of La Tour's oeuvre and help certify it as an autograph...