Le siècle d’or
“The Golden Age, in Holland, was first and foremost a matter of money. The portraits I love were commissioned by people who had just made a great deal of …
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“The Golden Age, in Holland, was first and foremost a matter of money. The portraits I love were commissioned by people who had just made a great deal of it, and the lace they had painted around their necks is not ornament: it is a figure. All I did was swap one kind of wealth for another. The red box, the yellow M, the fry held between two fingers the way one once held a pearl. It was on the ruff that I spent the most time. If it is not painted seriously, all that is left is a joke, and a joke wears thin in three days. What interests me comes afterwards: she eats while she is being painted, something no sitter would ever have allowed herself, and I still do not know whether she thinks she …
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