Template:Did you know nominations/Portrait of Count Stanislas Potocki

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The result was: promoted by Bruxton (talk) 21:00, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

Portrait of Count Stanislas Potocki

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• ... that Jacques-Louis David's Portrait of Count Stanislas Potocki from 1781 has been described as one his masterpieces? Source: "David was soon to achieve a total rejection of the Rococo in a trio of masterpieces of 1780-81 executed both before and after his return to Paris from Italy - St Roch, Portrait of Count Potocki, and Belisarius (...)" (Rosenblum, Robert (1973). "David's 'Funeral of Patroclus'". The Burlington Magazine. 115 (846): 575)
  • ALT1: ... that Jacques-Louis David's Portrait of Count Stanislas Potocki from 1781 marked the return of equestrian portraiture to European painting of the late 18th century? Source: "By the middle of the eighteenth century, equestrian portraits had become scarce. (...) By the end of the century, the genre returned, marked by David's magnificent portrait of Count Potocki." Sandström, Birgitta (1988). "An Equestrian Portrait of the Duc d'Orléans by Alexander Roslin". Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts. 64 (1): 52.
  • ALT2: ... that that Jacques-Louis David's Portrait of Count Stanislas Potocki from 1781 depicts its subject wearing the Order of the White Eagle, Poland's highest order of merit? Source: Brookner, Anita. “Paris.” The Burlington Magazine 100, no. 668 (1958): 404 and Order Orła Białego, Prezydent.pl, Official Website of the President of the Republic of Poland (https://www.prezydent.pl/prezydent/kompetencje/ordery-i-odznaczenia/ordery/order-orla-bialego) (the latter is a source to indicate that it is the highest order)
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Improved to Good Article status by Ppt91 (talk). Self-nominated at 19:50, 20 May 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Portrait of Count Stanislas Potocki; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: @Ppt91: Good article. Personally, alt1 is really the hook that interests me. Onegreatjoke (talk) 22:36, 20 May 2023 (UTC)

• Onegreatjoke Thanks! I am happy with ALT1. Ppt91^talk 17:28, 21 May 2023 (UTC)