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Tobias George Smollett
Not on view
In his 1766 Travels through France and Italy, Smollett showed little appreciation for Versailles: "In spite of all the ornaments that have been lavished on Versailles, it is a dismal habitation. The apartments are dark, ill-furnished, dirty, and unprincely. Take the castle, chapel, and garden all together, they make a most fantastic composition of magnificence and littleness, taste, and foppery." A melancholic mood dominates this portrait, which was painted in Pisa toward the end of the British novelist’s life.
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