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Mistaken identity: Bourdon’s portrait of Warin in the Orléans collection.

I’m slowing beginning to unravel the mystery of a lost portrait, supposedly of the medal maker and sculptor, Jean Warin (1604-72), attributed to Sébastien Bourdon (1616-71), which once hung in the Palais Royal as part of the famous Orléans collection. The painting is illustrated in the third volume of a 1786 publication of the Orléans

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