Sans titre

To present it to the Cercle Artistique in Brussels in January 1877, Rodin initially titled his work The Vanquished, then The Awakening Man, and finally The Age of Bronze, in reference to the successive stages of human evolution as described by the Greek poet Hesiod in Works and Days.

Through sculpture, Rodin depicts the painful awakening of individual consciousness, the history that precedes it, and the challenge of its own survival.

The depiction of the human body with extreme fidelity, as if the man were waking from a horrific nightmare, gave rise to the hypothesis that Rodin had molded his figure from the body of his model.

He became a principal dancer at the Paris Opera in 1956.

In 1919, upon his return from Brazil, the composer Darius Milhaud adapted a popular song of the time, "O Boi no Telhado" (in English, "The Ox on the Roof"). This melody, offered to Jean Cocteau for the ballet-concert project he was developing, adopted the title "Le Bœuf sur le Toit," a literal translation of the Brazilian song.

The group Les Six, Cocteau at the piano, Darius Milhaud standing on the left

He arrived in Paris in 1897 on a modest scholarship and was soon joined by his sister, Ruth. The siblings attended evening art classes at the Académie Colarossi and anatomy classes at the École des Beaux-Arts.

In 1900, Carl met the artist Olga Granner, to whom he became secretly engaged—a pivotal year for his future.

The plaster cast of Hylas, the young boy abducted by nymphs in Greek mythology, created in 1899 and exhibited at the 1900 Paris Salon, received an honorable mention.

Carl Milles was then commissioned by a Swedish patron to create a marble copy of Hylas. This sculpture is now located in the lobby of the Stadshotellet in Västerås.

The sculpture, delivered in 1907, appears in the foreground of a photograph of Milles' studio, with his sister Ruth standing in the doorway.

Commissioned from the master for the chapel of Francesco del Pugliese by his youngest son, Piero, the latter is depicted twice.

First, in the lower right, praying with his family in the figure of the Virgin and Angels.

But also in this double portrait of friendship by Filippino Lippi, "Double Portrait of Piero del Pugliese and Filippino Lippi," about 1484. Denver Art Museum:

Dating from the first half of the 17th century (1600–1647), the 1.59m x 1.38m painting, originally from the collection of Everhard Jabach (1618–1695), was acquired from him in 1662 for the collection of Louis XIV at the Palace of Versailles, in the King's private apartments.

While Hagar and her son Ishmael were wandering in the desert, dying of thirst, God sent them an angel to save them.

This royal acquisition made the Argschütze (Rock Hunter) Geyger's most celebrated work and a huge commercial success.

Only five other full-size versions are known: a 2.30-meter bronze version for the Rathausvorplatz in Hanover,

from which another bronze replica was commissioned by Carl Jacobsen, for the Sportpark, Copenhagen;

a 2.37m copper version, given by Geyger's parents to the Arndt-Gymnasium in Berlin-Zehlendorf in 1926;

At the beginning of World War II, this relationship was interrupted by Maurits's enlistment in the Belgian army.

Thérèse Blanchard (1925–1950) lived at 54 rue de Seine, in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, a 5-minute walk from the Cour de Rohan, where Balthus's studio was located.

In 1936, at the age of 11, she posed for a series of paintings by the artist, including "Thérèse" (1936),

"The Blanchard Children" (1937) with her older brother Hubert,

"Thérèse Dreaming" (1938),

and "Thérèse on a Bench" (1939).

"Thérèse Dreaming," on display at the Met, caused a scandal in New York in November 2017. A petition with nearly 12,000 signatures denounced the painter's pedophilic gaze upon his model, whom he painted about ten times between 1936 and 1939. The museum refused to remove the painting, as requested by the petition.

Nevertheless, this painting is much more "tame" than "The Guitar Lesson" from 1934.

Paul, the Taviton Street mirror, and Duncan sitting by the fireplace in his studio at Farmhouse, Sussex, in 1970

Portrait of Gustave Courtois by Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret (1884).

Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret

In late 1880, Gustave Courtois and Dagnan-Bouveret rented a double studio on the first floor of 147 Avenue de Villiers, in a newly constructed building with large glass windows.

There, they hosted Carl Ernst von Stetten, 1857–1942,

Nisus and Euryalus.

Companions of the Trojan Aeneas, they confront King Turnus and his Rutulians, who oppose the Trojan settlement in their territory. Attacking the sleeping Rutulian camp at night, Euryalus and Nisus manage to kill several of them, including King Rhamnes, the noble lord Remus, and the handsome young Serranus.

Fleeing after Euryalus seizes their weapons, they are pursued by Volcens, Turnus's lieutenant, who sees a moonlit reflection on the robbers' helmets. Nisus manages to escape, but Euryalus, burdened by his loot, is surrounded. Nisus comes to his aid and kills two Rutulians with his javelins. Volcens, furious, kills Euryalus with a sword stroke, but Nisus avenges his friend by killing Volcens, and dies in turn.

The Balcony of My Caravan, Bonnard 1912

He stayed there regularly until 1938, when he settled permanently in Le Cannet, which he had frequented every winter since 1927.

Marthe & Pierre