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Painting Reproductions

1985? Velazquez' portrait of Aesop (large format) from the Prado. From the Milwaukee Antique Center, Jan., '88.

Who would ever think that someone would make a poster of Aesop!

 

2015?  “The Blind Leading the Blind,” rolled canvas copy of the painting by Pieter Breughel the Elder.  Image 18.5” x 12”.  Canvas 19” x 13”.  From an unknown source.

I have long debated whether this brilliant painting belongs in the collection.  Probably somebody somewhere called it a fable, and that description would not be totally wrong.  It is usually labeled a parable, but I think that is not closer to the mark than is “fable.”  My conclusion is, if one is trying to be strict, that it is a simile.  But the simile is so active and telling, even though brief, that the mind easily expands it to be a story.  I have learned that copies like this are abundantly available on the web.