Durand, John, 1822-1908 · New York : C. Scribner · leaf 116
e National Museum at the Smithsonian Institutionin Washington. To complete the foregoing details of the Ariadne, thefollowing is added concerning the picture itself. Vanderlynpainted the figure in Paris, where the requisite facilities forexecuting a work of this class were readily attainable;… … Jrijdne: 77 Of course, an engraving of a beautiful nude figure, howeverably executed and admired, could not be sold in America atthat time. The painter, after exhibiting Ariadne in NewYork, where no purchaser presented himself, and in need ofmoney, disposed of it to my father for the sum of six…
Durand, A. B. (Asher Brown), 1796-1886 · Art
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