Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...portrait by Rembrandt was yesterday placed on exhibition in the main room on the second floor of the Fogg Art Museum, where it will remain only a short time. It is dated 1643 and represents an old lady seated in an armchair holding a book. The concensus of expert critical opinion holds that this portrait is one of the finest Rembrandts in this country...
...University has received a portrait of the late Mr. Robert Bacon '80, former Secretary of State, Ambassador to France, and Fellow of the Harvard Corporation, as a gift from his classmates. The portrait was painted by the French artist Philip A. Laszlo. It is a replica of that painted by him in Paris in 1910 when Mr. Bacon was serving as American Ambassador, the only portrait of Bacon done from life...
...Bacon portrait is to be hung in the Union, probably in the Living Room. The Union is also to have, for the present, the photographs of the Harvard men killed in the war, which were temporarily exhibited in the Widener Library and have remained there until the present time. The screens bearing these photographs are to stand in the Library of the Union. Ultimately it is hoped that the photographs may find a place in some Harvard war memorial building yet to he built...
...from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Included in the work of the earlier masters are prints by Jean Duvet, one of the first to practise the art of engraving in France; Jean Gourmont, "the best representative of the spirit of the German Little Masters transplanted in France"; and portraits by Mellan, Morin, and Nanteuil, the head of the French school of portrait engraving; Antoine Masson, a serious rival of Nanteuil's fame; Edelinck and Pierre Drevet, who in his portraits developed an exaggerated fineness of technique...
...Holbein Portrait is painted in a roundel of oak and represents a young man, almost full face, dressed in a black coat and cap. In his left hand he holds a pair of gloves. The background is a greenish blue, and on it is inscribed: "Anno Domi 1535 Etatis Svae 28." Professor Paul Ganz, the well-know authority on Holbein, writing of this portrait says: "The Portrait of a Young Man" is a genuine, exquisite work of Hans Holbein the Younger. The drawing for this picture is in the Library of Windsor Caste. . .In my opinion this unknown...