Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor

Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor edit

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Original – Carolus-Duran's portrait of Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor, a prominent American socialite and wife of businessman William Backhouse Astor, Jr.

Reason: High quality depiction of a notable socialite; apparently, she would always stand in front of the portrait when receiving guests.
Articles in which this image appears: Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor +1
FP category for this image: She'd probably want to be in Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Royalty and nobility, but I think Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Others works better
Creator: Carolus-Duran

Support as nominator – — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:18, 21 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - ^{Crisco, why does the painting have so little color, just black, yellow and brown hues? Was that the style for portraits then, or have the colors faded? Or could she have been standing under a yellowish lamp?} - CorinneSD (talk) 01:53, 21 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Not sure. Mind, the Met says that Duran was influenced by Velazquez, who (AFAIK) used a lot of earthy hues in his works/portraits (Portrait of Pablo de Valladolid, for instance). — Crisco 1492 (talk) 03:48, 21 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  - And, in theory, that effect could easily be increased by a layer of yellowed varnish. Will review properly in a bit. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 05:56, 21 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Jobas (talk) 16:38, 23 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - He had several works in this monocromatic style. - Hafspajen (talk) 09:52, 24 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support – nice artwork of an interesting socialite with good EV. SagaciousPhil - Chat 12:03, 25 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support – the yellowy-brown tint stops at the paint-line at the edge of the painting. The edges of the canvas are off-white. Around the edges of the canvas damage from a frame can be seen, and the yellow tint doesn't change in character where the canvas was covered by the frame, which suggests that whatever's causing the tint was applied at the time of painting. Carolus-Duran's French, so maybe he "French-polished" it, like a violin . Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 23:29, 28 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Carolus-Duran 001.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 01:20, 3 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]