*tHIS PAINTING WAS INDEED SPECIALLLY TREASURED BY LOUSI XV AND IS ANALYZED IN LENGTH IN "LA RACE FABULEUSE", BY GERARD DE SEDE, EDITION S J'AI LU, PARIS, 1973.
BY EXTREMELY TORTUOUS ARGUMENT, DE SEDE ARRIVES A T THE CONCLUSEION THAT THE SECTET IDDEN IN THE PAINTING IS THAT THE FRENCH ROYAL FAMILY WAS OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL DESCENT.
THE MORE USUAL INERRETATIO OS MORE VAGUE AND SUGGESTS THAT ARCADIA (LINKDD TO THE GOLDEN aGE CONTAINED SECTET KNOWLEDGE THATABOLISHISSES THE FEAR OF DEATH (SYMOBOLYSZED BY THE TOMB). a THIRD LINE OF INTERPRETATION SUGGESTED BY bAIGENT, lEIGH,M AND LINCONL IN "HOLY BOLOD, HOLY GRAIL," OP. CIT., WICH SEEMS TO SUPPORT THE NOTION THAT THE GRAVE DEPICTED IS, AS sARTINES THINKS, IN SOUTHERN FRANCE AND MYA BE THAT OF THE WIDDOW'S SON.