“Scheffer, knowing the impossibility of getting them away unrecognised, took off his “Shako,” and waving it in the air, called out to the people- “Le Roi part, vive le Roi!” During one of my visits to the Netherlands Institute for Art History in 2019 I read ‘Memoir of the life of Ary Scheffer’ by Harriet […]
This is a translation of one of the 45 blogs I wrote during my three month stay in Paris, 2021-2022. February 15, 2022 ‘Let’s try and make a circular tour of Paris’, I thought this morning. Take the tramway 3a in direction of Porte de Garigliano then bus PC to […]
This is a translation of one of the 45 blogs I wrote during my three month stay in Paris, 2021-2022. Februari 3rd 2022 Today I went to the Louvre for the third day in a row to study Charles LeBrun’s Alexander paintings. I felt heavily intimidated and analyzing all his compositional solutions I couldn’t theorize. […]
This is a translation of one of the 45 blogs I wrote during my three month stay in Paris, 2021-2022. Januari, 13 2022 On a long walk through Montmartre today I came upon le Cimitière de Saint Vincent. Out of curiosity I entered the grounds, saw a few hundred monuments from different periods […]
Stones “It’s rare to meet the most complete expression of poverty,so an idea for a picture came to me on the spot. I made an appointment with them at my studio for the next day” Courbet wrote in a letter to Francis Wey about the moment he saw the two men. In ‘Gustave Courbet, His […]
It seems quite likely that my mother-in -law, Mien Thissen-Mulder, found this book while browsing in the second-hand shop where her sister Doortje volunteered. It is called ‘De schilderkunst der XIXe eeuw’, (painting of the 19th century) written by Léonce Bénédite, curator of the Musée de Luxembourg, its date 1910. And, as was her habit, […]