pimprenelle
Nombre de messages : 40594
Date d'inscription : 23/05/2007
 | Sujet: Esquisses inconnues de Marie Antoinette par Jacques Louis David  Mer 16 Avr - 22:54 | |
| Je viens de tomber sur un site qui publie deux esquisses que David a faites de Marie Antoinette. Jamais vues de ma vie.  Sont-elles authentiques? Est-ce une plaisanteries? Les voici, en tout cas, avec les compléments d'informations donnés par l'article qui les présente: You never know what great treasures you will come across at the Clark. When discussing the art collection with a colleague this morning, he informed me that we have two watercolor sketches of Marie Antoinette by Jacques-Louis David.
Intrigued and delighted by this snippet of information, I immediately had to see the drawings for myself. Within moments, I was whisked away to the Clark’s “French Green Room” where the sketches are hung adjacent to one another. Once we turned the corner and walked into the room we were greeted by the queen’s image, both faint and partial.
Both sketches seemingly accentuate Marie Antoinette’s exquisite sense of fashion and her imperial disposition. The first image I came across was of her standing and resting her hand gently on the back of a chair. The rendering of her attire and physique looks as though the sketch was taken straight out of a fashion illustrator’s notebook. Each garment is carefully labeled and assigned colors, thus demonstrating David’s creative process in composing this image. The second sketch is a portrait of Marie Antoinette. Detached and disinterested, she gazes away from the viewer with her head turned to the side. And naturally, her hair and head piece are piled high thus granting her the stature and royalty definitive to her essence. Of the two sketches, only the image of her standing is dated 1793, which was the ominous year she met her demise. Right above the date David wrote, “Marie Antoinette dans La Conciergerie.” If you recall, Conciergerie was the infamous prison which Marie- Antoinette was brought before her trial. She was given less than a day to prepare and received no sympathy from the courts or the public. Once the verdict was reached, she was found guilty of treason and was immediately swept away to the guillotine. David had two months to sketch the queen while she was still alive and living in her cell. Even after she had long fallen from grace, David proceeded to imbue her image with the likeness of an angel or a saint. After all, she was the mother of France and what was a son to do? David’s sketches are fascinating and thanks to Professor Todd L. Larkin at Montana State University they have been the topic of discussion here at The Clark. Larkin contacted us requesting a reproduction of the sketches to which he encountered as a graduate student at UC Santa Barbara. On November 24th his request was fulfilled when a photographer came to The Clark to capture a couple of shots of the jail-bird queen. Unlike most pieces in our collection, the David sketches cannot simply be removed from their frames. A couple of years back, the library decided to bolt the frames to the walls in case of an earthquake to avoid any harm or damage to the sketches.
David’s Marie Antoinette sketches will permanently remain on display and we welcome our guests and scholars to stop by and admire them.http://clarklibrary.wordpress.com/2014/04/16/marie-antoinette-and-jacques-louis-david-at-the-clark/ Bizarre, non?
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rien que la mort peut me faire cesser de vous aimer
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madame antoine
Nombre de messages : 6902
Date d'inscription : 30/03/2014
| | Sujet: Re: Esquisses inconnues de Marie Antoinette par Jacques Louis David Dim 28 Jan - 11:15 | |
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Plus rien ne peut plus me faire de mal à présent (Marie-Antoinette)
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