#deseine

[robespapier]

Red suited him, and the lightning felt better than in its usual room, so here's many pictures of the Robespierre bust by Deseine, in Vizille's temporary exhibition 1793-1794: un tourbillon révolutionnaire

Is it me or does his expression seems slightly different depending on how you look at him ?

[detournementsmineurs]

"Tombeau du Duc d'Enghien" exécuté dans l'enceinte du château sur l'ordre de Napoléon Ier (1804), créé par le sculpteur Louis-Pierre Deseine à la demande de Louis XVIII (1816) dans la Sainte-Chapelle (1379) du Château de Vincennes, août 2021.

[montagnarde1793]

Joyeux anniversaire à Maximilien Robespierre, né le 6 mai 1758 !

(Ci-dessus les photos de son buste par Claude André Deseine (v. 1791) prises par moi pour le montrer par des angles inhabituels lors de ma visite au musée de la Révolution française à Vizille en janvier 2017.)

[silver-whistle]

Joyeux anniversaire!

À @montagnarde1793​

“There is no such thing as too much Robespierre” – as an archaeologist friend of mine says.

[silver-whistle]

More splendid sculptures from the Deseine brothers

They really are marvellous sculptors.

Besides capturing Max’s delicate loveliness, Claude-André gives us Mirabeau’s indelicate solidity:

(Still cannot believe this man was 10 years younger than me. He looks more like 72. Dissolute living takes its toll. Also, that is really bad smallpox scarring. The light scarring visible on the pencil profile of Max is negligible in comparison, hence not shown on the sculpture of him.)

And Gabrielle Danton, from a death mask taken after Georges asked her to be dug up… (Is it my imagination, or do the Dantons actually look alike? She could almost pass for Georges’ twin sister.)

Meanwhile, his brother Louis gives us Bailly, who bears a striking resemblance to Boris Karloff:

[betweenthebridges]

Handsome Guys From Art History: Terracotta bust of Robespierre by Claude-André Deseine