Wallace Collection Treasures in High-Definition
June 20 2025

Picture: The Wallace Collection via. Google Arts
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Exciting news for those of us who like to Zoom into digital images of paintings In infinitum. The Wallace Collection in London have just announced that a large selection of their treasures are now on Google Arts. Alongside the copious 'digital exhibition' material you'll find are very high-definition images of their paintings. This is a real step-up from the images available on their website. This is a detail of the earlobe and hair from Rembrandt's Self Portrait of c. 1637.
Just for fun, and to test the connoisseurship of readers of AHN, can anyone guess who painted the detail below?
Update - Congratulations to an AHN reader called Jonathan who was the first to spot the feather of Vigée Le Brun's portrait of Madame Perregaux.