25 December 2016

Diego Velázquez. The Toilet of Venus ('The Rokeby Venus'), ca. 1650 (National Gallery, London).



Oil on canvas: 122.5 x 177 cm. Attacked with a meat cleaver by suffragette Mary Richardson (nicknamed ‘Slasher Mary’) in 1914.

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