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Jacques André Joseph Aved

Portrait of Jean-Gabriel du Theil at the Signing of the Treaty of Vienna

1738–40
oil on canvas
124.5 × 92.4 cm (49 × 36.4 in)

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Smoke rising from the candle suggests that du Theil has just added his molten wax seal to the document before him.

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