Love Scandal
They recognized the style of that portrait immediately. It resembled the hand of Giovanni Boldini, a famous Italian artist. They knew that they had to get professionals into the loop. They brought the best of the best to identify this piece of art. They came to the conclusion that if this was a Boldini, it wasn’t known to the world. Experts who knew of Boldini figured that the woman in the painting must have been a lover and the grandmother of Madame. Her name was Marthe de Florian, and she was very well known in this parts of Paris and beyond. She was the talk of the town in the late 1800s because of her social status and involvement with a wild group of women called les demimondaines.
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