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A blog by Elena Maria Vidal.
“She was a very naughty girl,” Manhattan gallerist Adam Williams says of the presumed subject of Étienne Aubrey’s 1779 painting La Turque, which is being offered at $485,335. Dressed in fashionable Ottoman-style garb and suggestively reclining on cushions, the beautiful young woman is believed to be Rosalie Duthé (1748–1830), a legendary courtesan who counted Louis XVI’s brother the Comte d’Artois among her monied lovers. (Read more.)
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Courteous comments are welcome. If a comment is not published, it may be due to a technical error. At any rate, do not take offense; it is nothing personal. Slanderous comments will not be published. Anonymity may be tolerated, but politeness is required.
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