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Butler/Section 1 (I)/Pictures/12
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- 1866 (Creation)
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1 item
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Oil on canvas (44.4 x 55.8 cm). Framed. [No. 12 in Henry Festing Jones's 1921 catalogue: I showed this to Gaetano Meo, and he remembered that the man was Calarossi, a model, whose brother went to Paris and became known as the proprietor of a studio there. The woman, he said, was Maria, another model. The background is Dieppe. I suppose that Butler did this study in the autumn of 1866, using nos. 10 and 11, the watercolours of Dieppe, or some other sketch made on the spot, for the background. The idea was to make portraits of two heads with a landscape background in the manner of Giovanni Bellini.'] View a digital image of this painting at: https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/two-heads-after-bellini-139344