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matteo moriconi

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Martin Cooke

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Google image search will reveal the answer

Jenny Harris

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Martin, this is the result Google image reverse search comes up with - but the website it’s shown against doesn’t allow access for some reason.

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matteo moriconi

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I already tried using multiple reverse image engines. Google, Yandex, Bing, TinEye... all of them. I came across this website http://thedruge390.web.fc2.com/essay/paper-201651012019/ which uses the image for an essay on the Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, which leads me to think this could be an illustration for a book of the play, but this sounds reeeeeally unlikely. Also the name that comes up on google (Jean-Léon Gérôme) is the author of a much more famous painting of the Pygmalion story. This is harder than it looks. I'm asking everywhere because i'd like to find an image with higher resolution and frame it in my room.

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Robert Jones, NAPA

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Something odd here - if that is a painting by Gérome, it's at best a preliminary sketch - a very preliminary sketch, and not one I can imagine he would have wanted to show.  Gérome was an academic painter - this is nothing like his style or method.  Granted, unless you subject a painting to X-ray, you can never be sure what peculiarities lie beneath its surface - but this could hardly look less like a Gérome painting if it tried: or in any event, a completed one.  We are not convinced, we at the Jones Conservatoire.... 
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Robert Jones, NAPA

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Matteo - our posts crossed.  Yes, a book or playbill cover, but not a Gérome: he was stiffly accurate and literal.  

matteo moriconi

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I agree, I'm almost certain this is not a painting by Gérome. Point is, I looked on most art encyclopedias online and i couldn't find anything, so I don't even know where to search now. Thanks for your help, Robert. If anyone else has suggestions on where i can look at or if someone finds it, i'd be really thankful.

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Maybe this website can give you an answer - if you can translate it.

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Robert Jones, NAPA

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I suspect the painter is Miles Richmond (also indicated on that screenshot), 1922 - 2008; though I can't find this image among his works, the palette is similar to that used in a few I could find.  The yellow representing flesh is typical.  Still only a stab in the dark, though.  

matteo moriconi

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I saw the article but the author is not cited anywhere when i translate it

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The article on the Thinpo website originates from the Facebook page of a Hamide Haslaman - if you go into the article on Thinpo you can click on his FB profile photo at the start of the article to take you to it..  Not sure if this helps or not.

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