Les hommes, toujours - a selection of male portraits

 

Autoritratto, by Mario Sironi, 1904.

The artist Yozif Sutter, by Johann Friedrich Overbeck, 1812.

Count Benedykt Henryk Tyszkiewicz, by Kazimierz Pochwalski, 1889.

Hugues Desnotz, by Nicolas de Largillière, 1704.

Midshipman Robert Grant, by George Watson, circa 1820.

Portrait of a Man in White, French School, 1574.

Alexander Pope, attributed to Jonathan Richardson, circa 1736.

Self-portrait, by Eilnar IImoni, 1932. (I don't believe the date given this is correct; Ilmoni was 53 in 1932.)

Self-portrait, by Ford Madox Brown, circa 1844.

Unknown sitter, unknown artist, circa 1795.

Portrait of a Man Holding a Volume of Petrarch, by Jean Clouet, circa 1530.

The sculptor Tobias Weiss, by Wilhelm Leibl, 1866.

Jean-Charles-Auguste Simon, by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1806.

Self-portrait, by Adriaen van de Venne, 1618.

A. G. Webster, by George Clausen, 1881.

Portrait of a Noble from Eastern Europe, Flemish School, circa late seventeenth century.

Portrait of a Man, presumed to be Hassan, the "Keeper of the Giraffe" for Charles X of France, by Claude-Marie Dubufe, 1826-7.

Young Man Distracted - Study, by Jean Raymond Hippolyte Lazerges, 1850.

Józef Ciechoński, by Jan Matejko, 1873.

Unknown sitter, by Hans Johan Frederik Berg, circa 1840s-50s.

Filippo di Borbone, duca di Parma, Piacenza e Guastalla, by Laurent Pécheux, circa 1765. (Father of the below.)

Ferdinando di Borbone, duca di Parma, Piacenza e Guastalla, by Laurent Pécheux, 1765. (Son and successor of the above.)

Paul-Marie Duval, by Edgar Maxence, 1930.

Wilhelm Marstrand at his easel in Eckersberg's studio, by Christen Købke, circa 1829.

Les Années folles - French fashion of the 1920's from the collection of the Kyoto Costume Institute

 

Boué Sœurs, circa 1923.

Sonia Delaunay, circa 1925.

Vionnet, 1929.

Lelong, circa mid-1920s.

Chanel, circa 1927.

Vionnet, 1927.

Zimmermann - textile design by Raul Dufy, circa 1922.

Poiret, circa 1923.

Vionnet, 1924.

Chanel, circa 1926.

Callot Sœurs, 1922.

Lanvin, circa first half of the 1920s.

Vionnet, 1922.

Constant Muse - photographs of Billy Justema by Margarethe Mather

 

1922.

"Semi-Nude - Billy Justema in a Summer Kimono", 1923.

Circa 1921.

Circa 1930. (Two images.)

"Hands, B.J.", circa 1925.

Circa 1925.

1922.

 Billy Justema and Al Chan, circa 1922.

Circa 1922. (Four images.)

Circa 1923.

1931.

1927.

Circa 1930-31. (Two images.)

Rudolf Abel and Billy Justema, circa 1935.

Circa 1927-43. (Five images.) The posted dates on these portraits vary wildly, but they were clearly taken at the same time or, at most, during two separate sessions.

William Justema (7 December 1905, Chicago - 7 January 1987, San Francisco), artist, writer, and actor. He moved to California at an early age and, after spending several years as a monk in a monastery in Oregon (?), he studied art under Xavier Martinez and Stanton MacDonald-Wright; as a fine artist, his painting style evolved from modernism into what he referred to as "magic realism." After living in Los Angeles and San Francisco, he relocated to New York, where for forty years he designed wallpapers and fabrics for the home furnishing industry. 

1944.

The author photo is the same one taken by Mather and shown above.

Portraits of Justema by other photographers.

Carl Van Vechten, 1937. (Three images.)

Judy Dater, 1980.

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Margrethe Mather (née Emma Caroline Youngreen; 4 March 1886, Salt Lake City - 25 December 1952, Los Angeles), American photographer. One of the most prominent female photographers of the early twentieth century, she had an intense and mutually influential, decade-long artistic and professional relationship with Edward Weston. At her death at the age of sixty-six, she was all but forgotten, while Weston is, of course, a legend in the world of photography. But in the words of another legendary photographer, Imogen Cunningham, who knew them both:

"In artistic matters Margaret [sic] was, of course, the teacher, Edward (Weston) the pupil."

But her story is much too interesting for one of my stripped-down biographies. Please read more about her HERE.