Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/Love or Duty

Delist and replace: Love or Duty

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 17 Jun 2022 at 17:00:38 (UTC)

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}

• Delist and replace — Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7.9% of all FPs} 17:00, 7 June 2022 (UTC)
• Delist and replace – Bammesk (talk) 01:46, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
• Replace. MER-C 05:33, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

Delisted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 19:06, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

• While the discussion is bellow qourum, this unused image can't retain its featured picture status and is delisted. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 19:06, 17 June 2022 (UTC)