He wears a checked tie and crosses his arms, holding one cupped hand up as if shielding
Francis Basset (1757–1835) likely commissioned Thomas Gainsborough to paint a pair of portraits depicting himself and his wife, Frances Susanna Coxe (c. 1760–1823), soon after he purchased their new home in 1785.
The woman holds a feather in the hand resting in her lap.
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In his left hand, he grasps the barrel of a musket.
She wears a yellow glove on the hand we can see, and she props one parasol over her
graphite: Eigendruck; lower right in graphite: EL Kirchner; top left verso by later hand
Inscriptions & Marks Inscriptions by later hand, upper center verso in graphite
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Auguste Rodin was born in 1840, the second child and only son of Jean-Baptiste Rodin and Marie Cheffer, first-generation Parisians of modest means. Nothing in his family background or situation suggested that he might become an artist.
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His left hand, on our right, rests on a round orb about the size of an orange, and
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Georg Mack the Elder, Christ on the Mount of Olives, 1508 and 1580s, engraving hand-colored
