Side By Side, Gainsborough’s Boy in Blue
“18-year old man from Rome, photographed by Wilhelm von Plüschow (the model is most likely Nino Cesarini, lover of Fersen, who was also a client of Plüschow, whom he hired to shoot many portraits of Cesarini in the nude. The relationship between Cesarini and Fersen was portrayed by Roger Peyrefitte in his novel L’exilé de Capri). Photo from the book Der Körper des Kindes und seine Pflege by Carl Heinrich Stratz”
From the same book of reference pictures for sculptors.
