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The museum has titled the canvas "Free Women of Color With Their Children and Servants in a Landscape," and it will go on view on March 7.
Watching "Downton Abbey," a thoroughly enjoyable British series on PBS about masters and servants in a stately home on the eve of World War I, is a bit like buying a trunk at Restoration Hardware.
"Watching 'Downton Abbey,' a thoroughly enjoyable British series on PBS about masters and servants in a stately home on the eve of World War I, is a bit like buying a trunk at Restoration Hardware," Alessandra Stanley wrote in The Times last year.
Here too are works that are not quite casta paintings but seem closely related, such as the group portrait "Free Women of Color With Their Children and Servants in a Landscape" by Agostino Brunias (an Italian working in the British colonies).
Michon writes that Banville resembled the stock character of Pierrot, the sad clown with a frilled shirt and painted face of stage comedies, and the image returns in "Masters and Servants," in a story narrated by an old curate whom Michon imagines modeled for Antoine Watteau's famous painting of Pierrot, which now hangs in the Louvre.
"The Help", a novel of black servants and white mistresses in the American south in the 1960s, has sold 5m copies and has spent more than 100 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list; this year "Downton Abbey", a British soap based on relations between aristocrats and servants in a grand Yorkshire house, has gripped many millions around the world and garnered five Emmy awards.
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