Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Julie d'Aubigny

Julie d'Aubigny edit

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Original – Julie d'Aubigny (1670/1673–1707), a.k.a. Mademoiselle Maupin. In a dramatic life with many lovers, she created several rôles in notable operas - as well as having the contralto voice type in opera created for her (if our article on Tancrède is to be believed), and inspired a book by Théophile Gautier.

Reason: Obviously, someone from the seventeenth/eighteenth centuries isn't going to have a photograph, and - unless painted, which not everyone was - is likely to get ephemeral art in the styles of the time. That said, it's a nice example of that style, and the subject is notable. Spent quite some time restoring it as well. Paper is yellowed with age, but, honestly, I think that looks better than an unnatural black and white - ink isn't naturally pure black, nor is historic paper a pure white, after all, and it adds some colour to the article. One does need to be careful, mind, as scans can exaggerate the yellowness of paper (c.f. the bright yellows of practically everything on the Library of Congress), but Gallica seems to have good colour fidelity, so I'm trusting it.
Articles in which this image appears: Julie d'Aubigny
FP category for this image: Presuming we consider her opera and theatrical work, if not most important, at least the most classifiable. Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Entertainment
Creator: Unknown artist, restored by Adam Cuerden

Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7.3% of all FPs} 18:47, 5 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Charlesjsharp (talk) 19:09, 5 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support. MER-C 12:16, 6 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support – but the dot on the "i" in Mademoiselle should be unrestored! Bammesk (talk) 15:59, 6 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- @Bammesk: Well-spotted. It got caught up in the mess next to it. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7.3% of all FPs} 20:43, 6 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 18:57, 15 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination didn't reach the necessary quorum for promotion. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 18:57, 15 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]