Interview According to historian Elisabeth Koning, Dutch minstrel shows, in which white artists played black buffoons, served as a source of inspiration for Black Pete. Black Pete was influenced by the international blackface tradition. The “minstrel show” was a...
Dutch Studies & Netherlandic Studies
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Manet Painting That Was Presumed Lost Has Been Found
Art Discovery The French painter Manet was an admirer of Frans Hals and painted a copy of his “Regentesses” in Haarlem in 1872. That painting, which was long presumed lost, has been found again in Italy and is now on display in the Frans Hals Museum. The Frans Hals...
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