The story
The critic Castagnary joked that she might be a Parisian milliner lying in wait for a millionaire gone astray on the shore. Empress Eugénie bought it in 1863.
The Pearl and the Wave
1862
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Object details
- Title
- The Pearl and the Wave
- Artist
- Paul Baudry
- Date
- 1862
- Culture
- Not recorded
- Medium
- Oil painting
- Object type
- Paintings
- Collection
- Museo del Prado, Madrid
- Credit line
- Image source Wikimedia Commons. License CC0.
- Object number
- EFA.0308
- Original image
- 3000 × 1396 px
- Source record
- View on Wikimedia Commons
- License evidence
- See the license
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