Murmures sur papier - a selection of drawings by Georges Seurat

 

L'Écho - study for Une Baignade à Asnières, circa 1883-84.

Broderie ; la mère de l'artiste, circa 1882-83.

Transport et chien, circa 1882-84.

Study for Une Baignade à Asnières, circa 1883-84.

Femme lisant, circa 1882.

 Le Dormeur - study for Une Baignade à Asnières, circa 1883-84.

Torse d’homme nu près d’un chevalet - study for Une Baignade à Asnières (?), circa 1883-1884.

 Le Noeud noir, circa 1882.

Deux hommes marchant dans un champ.

Homme lisant, 1884.

Garçon assis avec un chapeau de paille, 1882. (I question the date as this is clearly a study for Une Baignade à Asnières.)

Madame Seurat, la mère de l'artiste, circa 1882-1883.

 Femme tenant un bouquet, circa 1882.

 Brodeuse, 1881.

Garçonnet assis - portrait of Maurice Appert, circa 1886-88.

Study for Une Baignade à Asnières, circa 1883-84.

L'Homme couché - study for Une Baignade à Asnières, circa 1883-84.

Portrait of Edmond François Aman-Jean, circa 1882-83.

Vrouw voor een spiegel, by Gerard ter Borch, 1652 (Oops!)

 

Per the Rijksmuseum: A young boy holds up a mirror for the woman in the satin gown, who gazes upward at a far more plainly dressed woman. In the seventeenth century, mirrors symbolized vanity and the transience of life. This painting serves as a cautionary reminder: youth and beauty are fleeting. Ter Borch’s sister, Gesina, also an artist, probably modelled for both women, and his brother Moses for the boy.

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After carefully preparing this admittedly rather simple post, I wondered if maybe I hadn't previously shared the painting at some point, perhaps included in a larger group. So I searched older posts tagged with "Gerard ter Borch" and... I made a stand-alone post about this very painting, creating almost exactly the same cropped details - even the order they're displayed is almost identical - back in May of 2018. I feel very silly, but I'm posting it anyway; it's a wonderful painting and is more than deserving of a rerun/remake!

L'occhio più preciso - selected works by Cagnaccio di San Pietro

 

 L’Alzana, 1926.

Natura morta con peperoni, 1923.

 Preghiera, 1932.

Il Randagio, 1932.

Natura morta, 1934.

Ragazza davanti allo specchio, 1932.

Ritratto della signora Vighi, 1930-36.

Portrait of a boy,1929.

Portrait of a girl, 1929.

Primavera, 1923-25.

La Madonnina del dolore, 1936.

 Bambini che giocano, 1925.

Limone e granseola su tovaglia bianca, 1934.

Bambina, 1935.

La Partenza, 1936.

Natura morta con pesci, 1926.

Fortunata e lo specchio, 1925.

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Cagnaccio di San Pietro (né Natale Bentivoglio Scarpa, 14 January 1897, Desenzano del Garda - 29 May 1946, Venice), Italian Magic Realist painter. Born in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy, he attended the Academy of Fine Art in Venice, where he studied under Ettore Tito. His early paintings were in a Futurist idiom, but by the early 1920s he had adopted a very smoothly brushed, precise and almost clinical realism. His work, which includes portraits, nudes, still lifes, genre and religious pictures, shows the influence of the German painters of the Neue Sachlichkeit. His health declined in the 1940s, and he spent the war years hospitalized in Venice, where he died at the age of only forty-nine.

Autoritratto, 1938.

Four sisters and their little brother, Livadia, The Crimea, 1914