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Full length portrait of the explorer Sir Richard Burton dressed for fencing and holding a foil.

Portrait of the French fencing master Arsène Vigeant.

The Fencing Master is one of two oil paintings of this subject by Melchers. They belong to a small group of full-length pictures of men dressed for their occupational roles. These works are not commissioned portraits but genre paintings in which the…

Portrait of Maître d'armes Arsène Vigeant painted by the American painter John Singer Sargent. From "Les insolites du musée de la Cour d’Or de Metz : un portrait pour sceller l’amitié," Le Republican Lorrain, August 20, 2016 [Link]: "Né à Florence…

Portrait of Maître d'armes Barthélémy fully dressed for fencing with a foil in his right hand and a mask under left his arm.

Adolphe Rouleau Portrait, supplement to the June 2, 1905 addition of La Vie au Grand Air.