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Love or Duty by Gabriele Castagnola, restored by Durova from an old Library of Congress Scan. Has a strong yellow cast (admittedly, attractive, but not accurate from what I can tell) and (relatively) low resolution
Proposed replacement, restored by Adam Cuerden from a better scan.
Reason
Quite simply, the Library of Congress has rescanned this, it's now far, far better quality than the one we used to have, and thus a much better restoration can be done. Also, given it's used on Chromolithography, cutting out the colour check on the right - which shows the inks appearing in it and provides a quick check that all of them were printed - seems counterproductive when it only adds value. A defining feature of Chromolithography is the number of inks used in the high-end stuff, which this demonstrates.
On the restoration, I've checked, and in other paintings of the same scene he made he put a paint spill on the ground about where there's a blotch in this one, so I think that blotch in the shadow between her and the easel is meant to be there.
Articles this image appears in
Chromolithography, and, perhaps more questionably, Gabriele Castagnola
Previous nomination/s
Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/"Love or Duty" and Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Love or dutyb.jpg
Nominator
Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.9% of all FPs

Delisted --Armbrust The Homunculus 19:06, 17 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]