He sees in the late portraits "an incomparable psychologist."
The exhibition ends, in a shimmer of satin and jewels, with the late portraits of Mme.
There she periodically appeared and entertained in eighteenth century style, presenting her latest portraits or art work of her choice.
Shylock is the latest portrait, and one of the most eloquent, in his gallery of characters.
Yet I'll bet that Ms. Finley's latest portraits are very much part of her entire artistic enterprise.
The main version of this very late portrait is in the National Gallery, London.
For comparison's sake, the curators borrowed other late portraits.
The realism of the portrait was said to place it in the tradition of late Republican portrait and genre sculptures.
The decorative detail recedes in his late portraits, though the calculated precision remains.
They did, which doesn't mean that occasionally, in a few of these late portraits, he didn't rise to a heady degree of physical freedom.