The Oval Portrait
"The Oval Portrait" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe involving the disturbing tale of a portrait in a chateau. At just over three pages, it is one of his shortest stories. "The Oval Portrait" was first published as a shortened version titled "Life in Death" in Graham's Magazine in 1842. Poe may have been inspired either by his friend Robert Sully's painting of a girl holding in her hand a locket that hung on a ribbon about her bare neck, or perhaps by Tintoretto (1518-1594), who painted a portrait of his dead daughter.
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Short story - Edgar Allan Poe - Portrait - Tintoretto
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