Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
I take note that Summer has arrived on the calendar. I’m certainly ready for lots of sunshine and warm weather. There was rain in the forecast the entire week and it rained regularly if not continuously but the temperatures were mild. And today is a gloriously beautiful sunny warm day, my favorite kind of day. Here’s to more of them.
For my art fix this week I did a doubleheader. I walked up to the Frick and then on to the Met. I was glad I avoided the rain coming and going. Both museums were well attended (crowded).
I went to the Frick for their newest exhibit, Whistler as Printmaker: Highlights from the Gertrude Kosovsky Collection. This is a selection of 15 prints and one pastel for a promised gift of 41 works. They are of a high quality and it’s a great get for the Frick. Below are three samples.
Fumette – His tempestuous mistress and model.
https://www.frick.org/exhibitions/whistler_printmaker/221 The Wine Glass – His only still-life out of his 500 etchings.
https://www.frick.org/exhibitions/whistler_printmaker/240 J. Becquet, Sculptor
https://www.frick.org/exhibitions/whistler_printmaker/214 This is a link to the Frick website where you can read about the exhibit and see all the objects on display by clicking on the appropriate links.
https://www.frick.org/exhibitions/whistler_printmaker There were large groups of kids and other tours throughout the Met but the galleries I visited weren’t overly crowded. It’s been a while since I was in the European paintings galleries so it was the first time I saw all the entry doors blocked except for one. Half the galleries are undergoing renovations and are closed. My brother mentioned the Met’s Moroni portrait which wasn’t loaned to the Frick for their exhibit. It’s certainly every bit as good as any they had on display.
Giovanni Battista Moroni - Bartolomeo Bonghi (died 1584),shortly after 1553
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437164 He also reminded me the Met has a large selection of Tiepolo’s in their collection on a par with those exhibited at the Frick. In the hall outside the European galleries are four very large, wall size paintings of his. This is one of them.
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Italian - The Battle of Vercellae,1725–29
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437794 Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - Allegory of the Planets and Continents,1752 – Here’s one from the back gallery. More mythology, larger than the ones in the Frick but not wall size.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437790 What drew me to the Met, in addition to the paintings above, was the latest hanging in the drawing corridor which starred Rembrandt.
Thomas Haaringh (Old Haaringh) – I don’t think I’ve seen this before.
https://tinyurl.com/y6fo4h25 Jan Lutma – I’ve seen this many times and it’s a favorite as well as the self-portrait that follows.
https://tinyurl.com/yylushy7 Self-Portrait Etching at a Window – I posted this recently when the Morgan’s copy was displayed at the Neue.
https://tinyurl.com/y662mqud Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres - Madame Guillaume Guillon Lethière, née Marie-Joseph-Honorée Vanzenne, and her son Lucien Lethière,1808 – Ingres as I’ve mentioned many times is a favorite.
https://tinyurl.com/y3zvk4zb Charles Meryon - Pont-au-change, Paris,1854 – He’s someone new to me and I liked the samples I saw.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/371937 Charles Meryon - Pont-Neuf, Paris,1853
https://tinyurl.com/y4v7a3c6 Claude Vignon - Cleopatra,1647 – Someone else who is new to me. The asp which will kill her is wound around her scepter and if you look closely you can see her death scene at the bottom right.
https://tinyurl.com/yyk4bf6g Mary Cassatt American - Under the Horse Chestnut Tree – Another artist inspired by Japanese woodblock prints. She studied their techniques and was one of the early artists to create color etchings. The second link is to an article on Cassatt that speaks of this.
https://tinyurl.com/y39zvdxv https://chickhistory.org/2012/05/22/mary-cassatt-print-maker-extraordinaire/ This is a link to the Met website where you can read about the exhibit and see all the objects.
https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2019/drawings-and-prints-rembrandt I had a splendid day, very enjoyable.
In other art news.
Three articles, the sad tale of the early death of Rossetti’s wife, a story on how Christie’s has eclipsed Sotheby’s as the leading auction house, an article on the discovery of Van Gogh’s fingerprints on his Sunflowers painting and a three minute video on forgotten pioneer female artists in Britain. The video is quite interesting, it mentions that in the 17th Century it was believed that women had no souls.
The Tragic Death of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Ethereal Muse, Elizabeth Siddal
https://tinyurl.com/y6epol5a Sotheby's, grand old lady of auction houses, eclipsed by Christie's
http://artdaily.com/news/114482/Sotheby-s--grand-old-lady-of-auction-houses--eclipsed-by-Christie-s Experts Find Van Gogh’s Fingerprints on His Famous ‘Sunflowers,’ and 4 Other Surprising Discoveries From the Painting’s Recent Conservation
https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/van-gogh-sunflowers-research-1578583“Bright Souls”: The Forgotten Story of Britain’s First Female Artists
https://youtu.be/ZgCR_AT7gVc Also two articles from Sotheby’s. The first is on pastels which I’ve always found to be especially beautiful. Included is one from Jean-Étienne Liotard and one attributed to him. I’ve mentioned his exhibit at the Frick a number of times which was truly a delight. This is a link to the Frick exhibit showing everything that was on display. It was one of my favorite exhibits.
https://tinyurl.com/y6lwr96k The second article is on Rembrandt’s self-portrait etchings. They speak for themselves.
‘Luminous and beautiful beyond all other pictures’ — the rise of pastel in the 18th century
https://tinyurl.com/y2gund4y Before the mirror: Rembrandt’s self-portrait etchings
https://tinyurl.com/y5zq3wdo And now let’s visit the Flickrs.
Andy G.
Belle Costume!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/155587138@N02/47867224341/Me and Mistress
https://www.flickr.com/photos/129285689@N02/34392298096/Adding colour to the garden
https://www.flickr.com/photos/142877968@N07/33978666518/playing with the petticoat of my new sissy dress
https://www.flickr.com/photos/10974572@N05/26718608085/night walk
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22704178@N07/47637120631/DSC00232
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sallyjj/46522474024/Where In The World I Lisa?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lisamcd/47910431931/ Frills and Furbelows
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cutie_ruthie/19724088722/Paula
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tranniefun/31747485398/Cotton-Headed Ninny-Muggins
https://www.flickr.com/photos/briannagrant/45546307145/
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