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Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2010 7:43 pm
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Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2010 7:45 pm
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Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 5:58 pm
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Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 6:11 pm
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I've just started reading "The Valley of the Four" from the Sherlock Holmes collection, and it discusses a painting that Jean-Baptiste Greuze did. Apparently Professor Moriarty has the painting hanging in his office behind his desk. Sherlock Holmes displays his knowledge of art as he gives the historical background to the painting.
"I don't miss much, Mr. Holmes. Maybe I learned that from you. Yes, I saw the picture - a young woman with her head on her hands, peeping at you sideways." "The painting was by Jean Baptiste Geuze." The inspector endeavoured to look interested. "Jean Baptiste Greuze," Holmes continued, joining his finger tips and leaning well back in his chair, "was a French artist who flourished between the years 1750 and 1800. [...] "All knowledge comes useful to the detective," remarked Holmes. "Even the trival fact that in the year 1865 a picture by Greuze entitled 'La Jeune Fille a l'Agneau' fetched one million two hundred thousand francs - more than forty thousand pounds - at the Portalis sale may start a train of reflection in your mind."
Anyway... this picture intrigued me, so I decided to see if it was a real picture... and it indeed is a real painting. And here it is:
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Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 11:22 am
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Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 11:36 am
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Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 11:47 am
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Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 12:13 pm
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Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 12:42 pm
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Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 12:43 pm
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Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 12:52 pm
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Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 12:54 pm
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Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 1:19 pm
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Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 1:33 pm
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