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 | | I’m not sure of the nature of his relationship with his young collaborator, Constance Mayer, but Prud’hon’s beautiful portrait drawing of her certainly shows great affection, and he was devastated by her suicide in 1821, dying himself two years later. |
 | | Her drawings of cloves of garlic (above, left), a gourd and an artichoke are rendered with the kind of attention to tone and surface detail that many artists might devote to a landscape. |
 | | The drawings are large scale, extraordinarily detailed and rich with the feeling of a real city, in which the buildings, streets and plazas exist in well-defined relationship to one another. |
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