Famous paintings as seen and described by famous writers (1907)
Singleton, Esther, 1865-1930 · New York : Dodd, Mead · leaf 380
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… … LA BELLA, BEAUTIFUL WOMEN 195 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 whether a…
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