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Jewels and artistic licence
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Posted by Beth1
on August 25, 2014, 5:11 am
Sully's portrait of the young Queen Victoria has drawn my attention to how artistic licence can make it difficult for those interested in royal jewels to identify specific jewels with certainty from paintings, or questions might be posed as to whether the jewel had been reset.
See
http://wallacelive.wallacecollection.org/eMuseumPlus;jsessionid=6D4E1DCE187BAB140E98650CC9C801B1.node1?service=direct/1/ResultDetailView/result.t1.collection_detail.$TspImage.link&sp=10&sp=Scollection&sp=SelementList&sp=0&sp=0&sp=999&sp=SdetailView&sp=0&sp=Sdetail&sp=0&sp=F
While Queen Victoria is wearing what is obviously the diamond diadem, the artist's rendition is different from the actual jewel and might cause confusion to those who were unfamiliar with it.
Do others know of portraits where artistic licence might cause confusion or make identification problematic? For example in the recent post I did about Annigoni's study of the Queen Mother wearing her Greville emerald necklace and earrings, those unfamiliar with the set might ponder if she was wearing that demi-parure.
Message Thread:
Jewels and artistic licence
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Beth1
August 25, 2014, 5:11 am
Re: Jewels and artistic licence
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Nellie
August 25, 2014, 5:46 am
Re: Jewels and artistic licence
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Arthur
August 25, 2014, 7:53 am
Emeralds in the Louvre
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Lorennzo
August 25, 2014, 5:14 pm
Queen Mary and her emeralds!
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Beth1
August 25, 2014, 6:39 pm
Re: Queen Mary and her emeralds!
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Arthur
August 26, 2014, 5:19 am
Re: Queen Mary and her emeralds!
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Beth1
August 26, 2014, 6:06 am
Re: Queen Mary and her emeralds!
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Arthur
August 26, 2014, 6:59 am
Re: Emeralds in the Louvre
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Arthur
August 25, 2014, 7:15 pm
Two queries
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Beth1
August 26, 2014, 12:38 am
The french rubies
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Lorennzo
August 26, 2014, 1:13 am
Thank you
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Beth1
August 26, 2014, 3:23 am
Re: Two queries
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LDMJ
August 26, 2014, 2:14 am
Re: Duchess of Angoulême's ruby and emerald parures
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Arthur
August 26, 2014, 5:08 am
Re: Duchess of Angoulême's ruby and emerald parures
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Beth1
August 26, 2014, 6:35 am
Re: Duchess of Angoulême's ruby and emerald parures
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Arthur
August 26, 2014, 7:51 am
Re: Duchess of Angoulême's ruby and emerald parures
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Beth1
August 26, 2014, 4:19 pm
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