Paul Fisher

“For the Salon of 1869, Carolus-Duran entered an elegant black-and-sepia monochrome in the Velázquez style, a portrait of his wife Pauline Croizette, La Dame au gant (The Lady with a Glove). In it, a crumpled white glove thrown down invoked Titian’s Man with a Glove in the Louvre, thus declaring Carolus-Duran’s outlawed love of the Venetian art, which the École scorned as debased and florid. Carolus-Duran’s languid and erotic dropped glove also enticed Salon audiences with its subtle sexual suggestion. And his particular”
― Paul Fisher, The Grand Affair: John Singer Sargent in His World