Bando Tamasaburo looks sort of odd in male make-up, if this is indeed him….
I have to admit that I’m not a big fan as it is. ^^;;;
Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848-1884)
Pauvre Fauvette
Oil on canvas
1881
Private collection
The Swimming Hole by Thomas Eakins
(Amon Carter Museum, Ft. Worth, Texas)
Thomas Eakins’s ideas about the human body find an interesting parallel in the poetry of Walt Whitman, and indeed, they may have been acquired from Whitman, at least to a degree. This attachment to Whitman survives from the records of Eakins’s students—they called themselves “the Whitmans.” Eakins admired Walt Whitman tremendously. He painted Whitman’s portrait and developed a rapport with the poet, and Whitman appreciated Eakins extraordinary vision. Eakins was particularly taken by the Song of Myself. The painting The Swimming Hole seems unmistakably inspired by the passage quoted above from it, and Eakins himself, referring to it as one of “his Whitmans,” would support this reading. It’s a remarkable example of a poem realized in oil and canvas.
Via Wayward Wanderer
Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel (French, 1851-1913)
Portrait of Paul Mounet
c. 1875. Oil on canvas. Museums of Fine Art, San Francisco.
Lucas Cranach (German, 1472-1553)
Cupid Complaining to Venus
1525. Oil on wood. National Gallery, London.
