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Following the examples on Glasses and Umbrella:

It is difficult to take one’s eyes off François-André Vincent’s glasses. In his portrait, at forty-nine, painted by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard—a lifelong acquaintance who would become his wife five years later—Vincent’s glasses are a conspicuous accessory (fig. 65).¹ They occupy only a fraction of the canvas’s surface area, but their location over the eyes of the sitter—where the beholder’s own eyes are inevitably drawn and redrawn—ensure that this ...

A rare green silk umbrella (fig. 170) is one of the eighteenth-century treasures of the Palais Galliera, the Paris museum of fashion. It has a turned oak handle, an eight-rib hinged metal frame, and a retracting and divisible central pole to enable the close and collapse of the umbrella into a pocketable thing ...

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