Wow! What treasures. This is very interesting. Thank you for posting it.
“...The painting was by Boldini and the subject a beautiful Frenchwoman who turned out to be the artist’s former muse and Mrs de Florian’s grandmother, Marthe de Florian, a beautiful French actress and socialite of the Belle Époque...”
It is indeed a portrait of a beautiful woman.
Sad in way... Things that seem so important to us in our lifetime outlive us. We go away and turn to dust; our things remain and get covered in dust.
Kind of sets everything in perspective.