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<p>[QUOTE="antidiem, post: 4600242, member: 30"]Sorry to say but I disagree that this is a high quality portrait painting. Vitry's is a copy of something else, which appears to be a copy of something else. The shoulder and hands and subtle details on all of the skin in general on Vitry's are absent by comparison with example and a 7" size is large enough to get plenty of definition into the skin. I feel it would be ornately painted at 7", especially if this were truly an older porcelain painting. </p><p><br /></p><p>The eyes are messed up. The left side eye is somewhat walleyed and bulges unevenly across the face. The right side eye carunkle (sp? the little inner part) was painted "off" in several directions, the white of the eye should not be bulging into it, this is not the angle of the face which is nearly head on. I don't see much for eyelashes despite the appearance of hair on the head, tho this is not as important as the rest of the offness. Despite an almost total absence of light highlights in the dark eyes, there is plenty of light on the skin of the face, so the lack of highlighting in the eyes appears to be an error of omission, as though not completely finished. </p><p><br /></p><p>I believe this was recently factory painted in an Asian country where people's eyes are not the same as European people's eyes, then the porcelain oval inserted into the old setting with the cigar box. I still have those same old 5c cigar boxes in use in my home, they're 1960s. Even the K4 on the back looks modern made. Am pretty sure there is a market for oval faked porcelain paintings. </p><p><br /></p><p>I also want to mention that on the example MOS has shown, I'm not sure the one on the right is any more "original" than the one on the left. MOS is correct to mention that the one on the right is better painted, it is. Thank you MOS <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="antidiem, post: 4600242, member: 30"]Sorry to say but I disagree that this is a high quality portrait painting. Vitry's is a copy of something else, which appears to be a copy of something else. The shoulder and hands and subtle details on all of the skin in general on Vitry's are absent by comparison with example and a 7" size is large enough to get plenty of definition into the skin. I feel it would be ornately painted at 7", especially if this were truly an older porcelain painting. The eyes are messed up. The left side eye is somewhat walleyed and bulges unevenly across the face. The right side eye carunkle (sp? the little inner part) was painted "off" in several directions, the white of the eye should not be bulging into it, this is not the angle of the face which is nearly head on. I don't see much for eyelashes despite the appearance of hair on the head, tho this is not as important as the rest of the offness. Despite an almost total absence of light highlights in the dark eyes, there is plenty of light on the skin of the face, so the lack of highlighting in the eyes appears to be an error of omission, as though not completely finished. I believe this was recently factory painted in an Asian country where people's eyes are not the same as European people's eyes, then the porcelain oval inserted into the old setting with the cigar box. I still have those same old 5c cigar boxes in use in my home, they're 1960s. Even the K4 on the back looks modern made. Am pretty sure there is a market for oval faked porcelain paintings. I also want to mention that on the example MOS has shown, I'm not sure the one on the right is any more "original" than the one on the left. MOS is correct to mention that the one on the right is better painted, it is. Thank you MOS :)[/QUOTE]
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