Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Portrait of Count Stanislas Potocki

Portrait of Count Stanislas Potocki[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 2 May 2015 at 23:54:08 (UTC)

Reason: High quality scan of an attractive work. Haven't had many Poland-related images featured yet.
Articles in which this image appears: Portrait of Count Stanislas Potocki +4
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
Creator: Jacques-Louis David

Support as nominator – — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:54, 22 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support Awesome painting with high quality. _______Alborzagros (talk) 07:13, 23 April 2015 (UTC)_______[reply]
Support – Nineteenth-century hagiographic portrait with EV for Polish history. (When it was painted in 1781, Poland – territorially reduced by the First Partition – had become a 'protectorate' of Russia, which soon would annex most of it.) Sca (talk) 12:53, 23 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. Another incredibly boring dingy old painting. 81.152.230.173 (talk) 19:28, 26 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Another incredibly snarky and impossible to act upon comment. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:59, 27 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Several other people recently have commented that certain photographic portraits were boring, or similar words. I didn't see anyone calling those comments "snarky". 86.152.160.53 (talk) 12:42, 27 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

... by the way, in case you took the comment personally, which it seems you may have done, when I said "another", I did not mean "another nominated by you". I was talking generally. I did not even notice the nominator. 86.152.160.53 (talk) 12:45, 27 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Funny, I never said you meant it that way. There's a difference between "This painting is too dark" (which, yes, there have been several comments recently) and "This painting is incredibly boring, too old, and dingy (dirty)". The painting is old, of course (rather hard to paint the subject from life now!). It might not be the kind of thing that interests you, but then the criteria state "A picture's encyclopedic value (referred to as "EV") is given priority over its artistic value." This painting has its own article, meaning the EV is clearly there. The painting is likewise not overly dark, as when you see it separately from the bright pure white (255, 255, 255) background, the detail is perfectly visible. This scan is well exposed; the contrast effect makes it appear overly dark at thumbnail size. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 11:15, 28 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support -The Herald • ^{the joy of the LORD}_{my strength} 19:10, 27 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Yann (talk) 07:31, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Jacques-Louis David - Equestrian portrait of Stanisław Kostka Potocki - Google Art Project.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 00:47, 3 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]