Tag Archives: France

1942: The Man Who Lost his Head

Posted on November 7, 2017 by corvusfugit

Claire Huchet Bishop: The Man Who Lost His Head (1942); illustration by Robert McCloskey.

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1895: Twilight

Posted on November 6, 2017 by corvusfugit

Thomas Alexander Harrison: Twilight on the Shore; I made up the date. Harrison was the inspiration for the character Elstir in Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past.

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1784: Cenotaph

Posted on November 3, 2017 by corvusfugit

Etienne-Louis Boullée: Cénotaphe de Newton (1784); for his proposal for a cenotaph for Isaac Newton, Boullée envisioned a 500-foot tall sphere encircled by plateaus containing hundreds of cypress trees. (source)

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1892: Mystic Landscape

Posted on October 29, 2017 by corvusfugit

Charles Guilloux: Paysage Mystique (c.1892)

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1890: Moonrise

Posted on October 27, 2017 by corvusfugit

Charles Guilloux: Lever de lune sur un canal (c. 1890)

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1853: Wrestling

Posted on October 25, 2017 by corvusfugit

Gustave Courbet: Wrestlers (1852-53)

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1910: Anonymous

Posted on October 24, 2017 by corvusfugit

Anonymous photograph; “French man carrying a head in a wheelbarrow” (c. 1900-1910) (source)

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1892: Moonlight

Posted on October 22, 2017 by corvusfugit

Thomas Alexander Harrison: Marine, Clair de lune (c. 1892-1893)

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1815: The Affair of a Second

Posted on October 21, 2017 by corvusfugit

George Thomas Keppel, Earl of Albemarle, describes a moment during the Battle of Waterloo: We halted and formed square in the middle of the plain. As we were performing this movement, a bugler of the 51st, who had been out … Continue reading →

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1349: Wound

Posted on October 21, 2017 by corvusfugit

Jean Le Noir: Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg, Duchess of Normandy (before 1349); this page shows the chest wound of Christ. (source) One of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and … Continue reading →

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