Famous paintings as seen and described by famous writers / edited and translated by Esther Singleton (1909)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930, Morse, Alice C. (Alice Cordelia), b. 1862, binding designer · New York : Dodd, Mead & Co · leaf 382
not been suggestedthough, it may be, that this masterpiece was the portraitof a lady with an Ethiopian page. The fashion of lateyears has been to identify Laura dEste with the picture ofa girl at her toilet attended by a man holding two mirrorsin the Louvre. In confirmation of this it has been… … I.A III.1.1.A. BEAUTIFUL WOMEN 295 chiselled nose, and the cut beard, are very like similarfeatures in Alfonsos portrait at Madrid ; yet this much, ifaccepted as correct, would not prove beyond question thatthe lady to whom Alfonso is holding the mirrors is LauraDianti ; and we may fairly doubt…
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