#cleo de merode

[clarabowlover]

Cleo de Merode

By Léopold-Émile Reutlinger (ca.1901)

[mote-historie]

Cléo de Mérode in dance dress, Photo by Leopold Reutlinger, Paris, France, 1901.

Cléopatra Diane de Mérode (French, 1875-1966) was a dancer of the Belle Époque era.

[ghw-archive]

Portrait of French dancer Cléo de Mérode. Photographed by Paul Nadar, 1894.

[inniave]

Cléo de Mérode by Reutlinger Studio, c. 1890

[slytherinsomniari]

Well, I finished my sketch. I don’t get how I can make one person look completely different 😂 but the second one at least looks more realistic compared to previous sketches I’ve done. I'm actually very surprised by that. I've sketched real people before but I've never been able to draw them even in a slightly realistic way.

Reference:

[ubu507]

plausibly divine fragments

[lemaldusiecle]

Old lady Cléo de Mérode photographed around 1950s.

“My art has been my foremost preoccupation.”

[garlandedspirits]

If I can’t look like a lady of wealth, taste, elegance and scandal in a Boldini painting then why bother dressing at all: