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Recommend exporting the image to commons and using the crop tool to place an image of the bored man (by far the most interesting thing about the work) in the desc section. As a humorous aside: what he probably told them [1]. Ceoil ( talk) 12:43, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
This article has improved a lot while it has been at FAC, but one point keeps nagging away at me.
There is a suggestion that the brick building outside (with classical details) is based on Vermeer. Perhaps. But isn't it also just the Housatonic National Bank building, which just happens to stand next to the old city hall, outside the window of this office? (The bank is named in the painting, as the sponsor of the calendar, incidentally.)
This is the building: [2] The old town hall is the gothic-ish brick building to the left, with its arched door and windows. And the bank is the classic-ish brick building with white columns and triangular pediment to the right. Also here, if this works: [3]
Not sure it matters much, but there we are. Theramin ( talk) 01:56, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
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Moe and Joan were paid $50 for helping
a painter with his
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Recommend exporting the image to commons and using the crop tool to place an image of the bored man (by far the most interesting thing about the work) in the desc section. As a humorous aside: what he probably told them [1]. Ceoil ( talk) 12:43, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
This article has improved a lot while it has been at FAC, but one point keeps nagging away at me.
There is a suggestion that the brick building outside (with classical details) is based on Vermeer. Perhaps. But isn't it also just the Housatonic National Bank building, which just happens to stand next to the old city hall, outside the window of this office? (The bank is named in the painting, as the sponsor of the calendar, incidentally.)
This is the building: [2] The old town hall is the gothic-ish brick building to the left, with its arched door and windows. And the bank is the classic-ish brick building with white columns and triangular pediment to the right. Also here, if this works: [3]
Not sure it matters much, but there we are. Theramin ( talk) 01:56, 6 March 2023 (UTC)