A Society Beauty Gold Silver & Bronze Nearly twenty years later a

Nearly twenty years later a Curator at the Berlin Museum recognised them as by Topolski and they were returned to him

The Emperor is barely there

But I wasn’t happy with the it

a bit of Euston Road

In thirty years

A Society Beauty Gold Silver & Bronze Nearly twenty years later aThis is an archetypal Belle Epoque portrait, painted in 1899 it shows a young woman of wealth and social standing. Although dressed in sumptuous silks, it is a domestic moment rather than a formal coming of age or marriage marker. She looks mildly peeved at being interrupted, a well loved book in hand. It is looser and more Parisian than his later works and as it surfaced in America it could well be one of the many wealthy heiresses wearing a furrow