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ANNA VINET (ACTIVE 1861-6)

L'Hémicycle de l'École des Beaux Arts

Signed and dated 1866

RCIN 405399

This miniature copy of Delaroche’s 27-metre mural in the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris depicts the most celebrated painters, sculptors and architects of the past, with the ancients – Apelles, Phidias, and Ictinus – seated at the centre. They are flanked by female personifications of Gothic, Greek, Roman and Renaissance art.

Purchased by Queen Victoria in 1867

No. 79


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