The Fencing Master
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Title
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The Fencing Master
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Description
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The Fencing Master is one of two oil paintings of this subject by Melchers. They belong to a small group of full-length pictures of men dressed for their occupational roles. These works are not commissioned portraits but genre paintings in which the individuals are posed in characteristic settings and clothes. Here the emphasis is on the design of the painting rather than the particular identity of the subject, French painter Ernest Noir.
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Creator
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Gari Melchers
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Source
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13.9
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Date
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ca. 1895
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Rights
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Institutional
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Identifier
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2018.03.018
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Extent
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Unframed: 81 1/4 × 39 1/2 inches (206.4 × 100.3 cm). Framed: 95 1/4 × 54 × 3 inches (241.9 × 137.2 × 7.6 cm).
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Provenance
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Detroit Institute of Arts. [Image Source] [Copyright Holder's Terms of Use]
