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OriginalPaul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry's The Pearl and the Wave, described by Kenyon Cox as "the most perfect painting of the nude". Oil on canvas, measures 83.5 by 178 centimetres (32.9 × 70 in)
Reason
High quality scan of a notable artwork; I also think we should have more nudes
Articles in which this image appears
The Pearl and the Wave,
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
Creator
Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry
Alt (color balance mostly)
  • Annnhhh If there's a better version it should be used; looks like one of my scans. This is the hermaphrodite pic, right? (Just joking.) We do need more nude male paintings, drawings, photos featured. Young 40 somethings would be fun. Sounds like a photo project! CarolMooreDC 14:02, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Cool on Nadar photos! Second scan or color balance definitely better. CarolMooreDC 05:58, 7 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
You're seriously thinking of promoting an alternative with colours that look unnatural (for a painting), oversaturated, and probably do not accurately reflect the colours of a painting of the sea, because someone played with the tools and thought it looked better? Really? Without even trying to check if the changes are actually more right? You know better than the museum who actually owns the painting what the painting looks like? You realise there's this green thing called algae that grows on moist rocks, and sea water tends to be greenish-blue so this scene would be expected to have a lot of green in it? You realise that oil paintings tend to be a little desaturated, not hyper-saturated like the edit? In short: You are making a huge mistake here. Please don't.
Support original. I would think that the museum where the painting resides would know best what it looks like. howcheng {chat}
Not necessarily. I've seen several instances of museum websites posting reproductions with inaccurate colors, even the prestigious Musée d'Orsay. In some cases the reproductions on their websites are 2nd or 3rd generation from the original. Kaldari (talk) 03:08, 9 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

More comments, please. Makeemlighter (talk) 22:59, 8 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

  • Is it too late to simply Oppose this? Seriously, neither of these really look to have realistic colours to me for an artwork of this vintage. The original looks dull and off with greeny skin tones, the alt too cold for an oil painting. I'd tend to agree with SJ's original comment that the original upload looks to have the most likely colouring. If I had to go for one of these it would be the original, but I think it's wrong and we probably should revert to the original small upload, unless someone can do a better colour matching job. But bigger always triumphs, right? --jjron (talk) 15:18, 10 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 02:51, 21 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]