Word: watteau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remember. The crystal chandeliers shone down on powdered wigs, hoop skirts, and velvet-coats, as the Lowell House Musical Society revived Handel's pastoral opera, "Acis and Galatea." Baroque chairs and cabinets had replaced the High Table, and behind them hung an elaborate tapestry of the best Watteau variety. Two red canopies and scattered Georgian pilasters completed the picture...
...barber's itch. >M. de Malancourt, a wealthy gentleman, had an "astonished camera artist take an art photo of his plump and symmetrical backsides, without drapery." Then he sent a handsomely mounted and autographed print to an art expert whom he suspected of selling him a fake Watteau. Sued for libel by the expert, M. de Malancourt conducted his own defense in the great French tradition. "A picture of one's backsides, he argued, was more intimate and personal than a photograph of one's face. To send it to a friend or acquaintance, therefore...