Etude+-+Le+Duc+d'Albe

Date: 1925
 * [[image:http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?id=http://americanart.si.edu/images/1968/1968.18.11_1a.jpg&max=460 width="260" height="403" link="@http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=2867"]] || Title: **Etude: Le Duc d'Albe**

Artist: **Romaine Brooks** Born: Rome, Italy 1874 Died: Nice, France 1970

Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 34 3/8 x 23 in. (87.2 x 58.5 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of the artist

Accession: 1968.18.11 || Brooks met the 17th Duke of Alba, Don Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart y Falcó, at the Czech resort town of Marienbad. She captured the duke's aristocratic charm in her vigorous brushwork, the slightly lowered viewpoint, and his sidelong glance.
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Brooks met the 17th Duke of Alba, Don Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart y Falcó, at the Czech resort town of Marienbad. She captured the duke's aristocratic charm in her vigorous brushwork, the slightly lowered viewpoint, and his sidelong glance.