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1907

The Pulpit of the Cathedral of Saint-André in Bordeaux

Giovanni Boldini

Italian, 1842 - 1931

Boldini was a society painter who was trained in Florence but worked mainly in London and Paris. His bravura style and facility with a likeness established his reputation in portraiture. The pulpit that is the subject of this "portrait" is itself a work of art, made by an eighteenth-century Bordeaux craftsman of carved mahogany with inset panels of red marble.

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Giovanni Boldini, The Pulpit of the Cathedral of Saint-André in Bordeaux, 1907 | Philadelphia Museum of Art