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Title: Figure Study for "The Death of Socrates" Artist: Jacques-Louis David (French, 1748-1825) Date: ca. 1786-7 Genre: figure study, historical painting Movement: Neoclassicism Medium: Black chalk, stumped, heightened with white chalk on beige paper; squared in black chalk Dimensions: 53.6 cm (21.1 in) high x 41.4 cm (16.3 in) wide Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, USA
Count her fingers. Both hands clasped together near the edge of that terracotta surface - every one accounted for with the anatomical precision of an obsessive. Ingres didn't paint hands. He engineered them. Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres's "Angelique" is a puzzle dressed as a nude. The subject comes from Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso" - Angelica chained to a rock, awaiting a sea monster. But Ingres strips the story almost bare. No monster, no hero. Just a woman, a hint of a shackle at her feet, and that impossible S-curve running from her ankles to her outstretched wrists. Follow it and you'll notice her spine bends in ways vertebrae politely decline. The torso is elongated by at least one lumbar vertebra that doesn't exist. He did the same to the Grande Odalisque and dared anyone to complain. Light from the left sculpts her front and left side while the right dissolves into shadow against warm stone. Her body becomes a sundial - the shadow tells you exactly where Ingres wanted your eye to travel. The kind of image that rewards the person who stands too close and asks too many questions. Quelle: meisterdrucke.com
"To esteem everything is to esteem nothing."
The Misanthrope (1666), Moliere from The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained, James Canton
leave a little kindness
Palace of fine arts, San Francisco.
bought a couple new bras yesterday cause I really needed them lmao- I know my titties ✨✨ have gotten bigger (about gotDAYUM time) but I didn’t think I would need a B cup!!! Just a bit bigger band size, I figured I was still in the A cup (which an A cup does fit but it’s a snug Fucking fit.. lol) ANYWAYS IM a B CUP NOW :DDDD…like all the time. Before I was mostly an A cup. Sometimessssss fitting into a smaller B cup.
Also, this be my new French provincial style chair hehe, it’s gonna go so well with my new vanity and in our bedroom at the new house
Polyhymnia, Muse of Eloquence Charles Meynier (French; 1768–1832) 1800 Oil on canvas The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Bonaparte franchissant le Grand Saint-Bernard, 20 mai 1800 (1802) By Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825)
Title : Bonaparte franchissant le Grand Saint-Bernard, 20 mai 1800. English : Bonaparte Crossing the Grand Saint-Bernard Pass, 20 May 1800. Oil on Canvas. Subject : Napoleon Bonaparte. Inscriptions : bottom left, center : Bonaparte, Annibal, Karolus Magnus. Date : 1802.
Current Location : Château de Versailles, Place d'Armes 78000 Versailles, Yvelines, France. Accession number : MV1567
MWW Artwork of the Day (3/31/17) Marie-Denise Villers (French, 1774–1821) Detail: Young Woman Drawing (1801) Oil on canvas The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Mr. & Mrs. Isaac D. Fletcher Collection)
It's only fitting that this month's survey of women artists concludes with one of the most enchanting faces ever put on canvas by a woman ... or by a man, for that matter. (The picture, of which this is a "close-up," is also in this gallery.) Not much is known about Marie-Denise Villers or her work aside from this one alluring portrait, once attributed to David, because it was thought no woman could have painted anything so good. We do know that she was born Marie-Denise Lemoine in Paris, that she came from an artistic family, and that her sisters Marie-Victoire Lemoine and Marie-Élisabeth Gabiou were also accomplished artists. The Parisian registry of 1794 also records her marriage to an architecture student, Michel-Jean-Maximilien Villers. She was said to have been a gifted pupil of Girodet and to have exhibited in the Salons, where the portraits which were her specialty attracted considerable attention. If not many of her works have managed to survive this one exquisite little vignette, thought to be a self-portrait, certainly should be enough to earn her a modicum of immortality.
This is included in the MWW exhibit/gallery: * French Painting 1789-1870: I - David & Neoclassicism
