Don’t miss
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Don’t miss
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The curators at the Courtauld must have realised this because they have given it pride of place in the main room of the collection and installed a bench facing it, from which you can contemplate its complexities.
And the longer you look at it, the more you notice, like the subtlety of its colours, the shades of light and dark and details such as the perfectly rendered cut glass bowl of oranges, the blurred faces on the balcony and the trapeze artist’s legs in the top left corner. Or as one 10-year-old visitor described the painting: “I like it because it has so much detail.
It’s the kind of picture I could look at all day.”
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