Portrait of Elizabeth Allhusen
French-born Dulac made his reputation as a book illustrator for children's books such as The Arabian Nights. The subject matter allowed him to indulge his love of the exotic and the oriental. He went on to enjoy a diverse and very active career, designing stamps, books and gravestones. With its gold background, oriental details which recall Persian miniature paintings, and hard outlines this portrait is a 1920s reworking of the great Italian Renaissance portraits by such artists as Titian (c.1487/ 90-1576) and Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519).
