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Interior with a musical company. Franz von Persoglia (Austria, 1852‑1912). Oil on canvas.

Franz von Persoglia studied at the Vienna Academy under Eduard von Engerth and was a genre painter of Romanticism, which got a new impetus of very realistic representations especially in the second half of the 19th century. In addition to these realistic depictions, Persoglia has also created a large number of paintings in the style of the neo-rococo and its “fine society.”

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Portrait of Mary Anne Bloxam (later Mrs. Frederick H. Hemming) (c.1824). Thomas Lawrence (English, 1769-1830). Oil on panel. Kimbell Art Museum.

Lawrence coveted Richard Baker’s drawings by Raphael and offered Frederick Hemming, who inherited the drawings, a companion portrait of his fiancée, Mary Anne Bloxam, in exchange for them. Bloxam was reputedly an accomplished porcelain painter, and in her portrait holds a brush as if busy at work; she is depicted in a modish white Grecian dress.

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Pavle “Paja” Jovanović (16 June 1859 – 30 November 1957)

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Evening Dress

c.1912

United States

New Canaan Museum & Historical Society

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Evening Dress

c.1900-1907

United States

New Canaan Museum & Historical Society

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Georg Anton Abraham Urlaub (1744 - 1788) detail of Portrait of a young lady at the clavichord, said to be Henriette Haussmann, 1779

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Edle junge Dame im Salon (detail) Félix Armand Heullant

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Evening Dress

1807-1810

Centraal Museum

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Evening Dress

1805-1810

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Im blühenden Garten / In the blooming garden, Eduard Niczky. Germany (1850 - 1919)

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The little gardener girl, Neogrády Antal. (1861 - 1942)

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Francesco Hayez (Italian, 1791-1882)

Ritratto di Cristina di Belgiojoso-Trivulzio

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Autumn Morning (1893) by Grigory Myasoedov

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Miss Harriet and Miss Elizabeth Binney, portrait miniature by John Smart, 1806

From the Victoria & Albert Museum

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Giuseppe Castiglione, Long-haired Dog Beneath Blossoms (circa 1727)

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Portrait Miniature of a Lady in a Gilt Metal Frame, Edward Pugh, 1803

From the Victoria & Albert Museum

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Portrait of Madame de Florian (c.1888). Giovanni Boldini (Italian, 1842-1931). Oil on canvas.

Among the many paintings discovered in her apartment was a portrait depicting Marthe de Florian herself in a beautiful pink muslin evening dress, painted by one of her lovers, the artist Giovanni Boldini. The portrait had never been listed, exhibited or published, however a visiting card with a scribbled love note from the painter was found in the apartment, and a short reference found in a book from 1951 commissioned by the artist’s widow Emilia Cardona also confirmed the provenance of the painting. According to the book, the work was painted in 1888, when the actress was 24 years old.