L a - b e a u t é - s a u v e r a - l e - m o n d e ~ D o s t o ï e v s k i

L a - b e a u t é - s a u v e r a - l e - m o n d e  ~  D o s t o ï e v s k i



Showing posts with label Giovanni Boldini. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Giovanni Boldini. Show all posts

Monday, October 21, 2013

Giovanni Boldini (December 31, 1842, Ferrara – July 11, 1931, Paris), Italian portrait painter.



Marthe, Princess Bibesco, 1911
Luisa, Marchesa Casati, 1908
Gladys Deacon, later Duchess of Marlborough, "circa 1905-08"
Countess Zichy, 1905 - I find this so very "drag queen"...!
Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough, and her son, Lord Ivor Spencer-Churchill, 1906
Luisa, Marchesa Casati, 1914


Friday, October 11, 2013

Dueling dandies - French+Italian vs. American+American


Le comte Robert de Montesquiou, aesthete (March 7, 1855, Paris – December 11, 1921, Menton), 
in a portrait by Giovanni Boldini (December 31, 1842, Ferrara – July 11, 1931, Paris), 1897.

Paul Wayland Bartlett, sculptor (January 24, 1865, New Haven, Connecticut – September 20, 1925, Paris),
in a portrait by Charles Sprague Pearce (October 13, 1851, Boston, Massachusetts - May 18, 1914, Auvers-sur-Oise), ca. 1890.