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Ferdinand Roybet, Ritratto di Juana Romani, 1901ca, localizzazione sconosciuta.

Oil on canvas signed with monogram

L'atelier de Fernand Cormon (circa 1885) présenté à la conférence “Toulouse-Lautrec et les Frères Van Gogh” de Nienke Bakker - conservatrice au Van Gogh Museum d'Amsterdam - autour de l'exposition “Toulouse-Lautrec. Résolument Moderne” au Grand Palais, novembre 2019.

Odalisquebull (Cormon, Odalisque)

Here is the 19th-century French play Philippe II, from which the first act of the five act Don Carlo is drawn (it’s the prologue, called “L’Etudiant d’Alcala”). The play is fairly similar to Don Carlos, with Posa replaced by Egmont’s son. In fact, some lines are word-for-word the same. Then in Act Five it goes in a completely different direction, with the Inquisition trial of Carlos onstage, Philippe pulling a knife on Elisabeth, and Carlos being shot while trying to escape dressed as a monk. Finally, Philippe says, “I am alone...alone, on the foremost throne in the world.”

Fernand Cormon: Jean-Léon Gérôme in his Studio, 1891.