This tote bag published for the "English Painting" exhibition at the Musée du Luxembourg features the painting Mary, Lady Bate Dudley by the English rococo painter Thomas Gainsborough. Mary Bate-Dudley was married to Gainsborough's friend and champion, Henry Bate-Dudley. She's shown here in a romantic woodland setting, leaning on a classical pedestal and an urn. Her pose is languid yet statuesque and the gesture of her left hand suggests a refined sensibility. Unusually in Gainsborough's art, Lady Bate-Dudley's head is shown in profile. This is a dramatic ploy intended to elevate
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