Art Gallery Trip

[Calilasseia]

Finally, a statue that I just had to photograph, as it was tailor made for the Ratz. Venus, carved in the fashion of Domenico Bartolozzi (actual artist unknown). You'll soon see why I included this one.

Enjoy!

[devogue]

This is a fucking brilliant thread.

Big thanks for all the effort Cali.

[Calilasseia]

You're drooling now aren't you Dev?

[hadespussercats]

Next, Lady Emma Hamilton As A Bacchante by Marie-Louise Elisabeth Vigée LeBrun. Now that's a name you won't come across often! Nelson's mistress looking suitably minxy against a backdrop featuring a smouldering Vesuvius ...

Oh oh oh!!!! I LOVE Vigee leBrun!

I fell in love with her work when I was a girl-- an article I saw in Arts and Antiques Magazine .

I did a large copy of a portrait of hers-- a lovely dusky beauty with a vermillion skirt and a basket of fruit. Sounds so Suzy Creamcheese, but really-- just arresting. I think the phrase "limpid eyes" was invented for her ladies.

Incidentally, someone stole the copy I'd made. And it was big- four feet by six feet, ish.

I wonder where she is these days?

[hadespussercats]

By the by, I am adoring this thread. Fortescue-Brickdale's work is enchanting. I have a soft heart for illustrations-- probably from growing up somewhere between the Wyeths and Maxfield Parrish-- and I love the pre-Raphaelites and related schools.

Thank you so much for taking the time to share these lovely pieces.

[Calilasseia]

Next, Lady Emma Hamilton As A Bacchante by Marie-Louise Elisabeth Vigée LeBrun. Now that's a name you won't come across often! Nelson's mistress looking suitably minxy against a backdrop featuring a smouldering Vesuvius ...

Oh oh oh!!!! I LOVE Vigee leBrun!

I fell in love with her work when I was a girl-- an article I saw in Arts and Antiques Magazine .

I did a large copy of a portrait of hers-- a lovely dusky beauty with a vermillion skirt and a basket of fruit. Sounds so Suzy Creamcheese, but really-- just arresting. I think the phrase "limpid eyes" was invented for her ladies.

Incidentally, someone stole the copy I'd made. And it was big- four feet by six feet, ish.

I wonder where she is these days?

Here you go Hades, your own little corner of art heaven.

[Calilasseia]

Also, here ... don't let the URL put you off.

[Calilasseia]

Basket of fruit, you say? Only there's a portrait of her daughter Julie, balancing a basket of fruit on her head ...

[hadespussercats]

Also, here ... don't let the URL put you off.

Hey! Here she is!



You know, looking at this painting all tiny on the screen-- it's hard to see why anyone would think it was special. I spent a long time with it, a little over a decade ago-- blown up slightly bigger than life. I see it through that lens of acquaintance, I think.

Still, pretty.

[Calilasseia]

Glad to be of service.

By the way, take a peek at the giant sized version of that image, which, if you examine it closely, apparently bears one of Vigée-LeBrun's thumbprints in the paint.