#girodet

L’eté (Summer)

Anne-Louis Girodet De Roussy-Trioson

The point is that this is a reality (the fact they would very much identify as gay men nowadays, and that the atmosphere in David's studio was one of "Socratic competition" - yes that means what you think it means: that they're all fighting to get the master's attention, and that this cattiness is encouraged) that historians and art historians, who have overwhelmingly been cishet men, refuse to label because it makes them incredibly uncomfortable. Try to look at the discourse around David's La mort de Bara. It upsets them. It's the same way historians deny T. E. Lawrence's homosexuality and masochism because "he can't! he's a national hero!" Gay men - not to mention masochists - are seen as deviant outliers, not major historical figures who shaped our world.

Dominique Jean Larrey, 1804

He was a French surgeon and military doctor during the Napoleonic Wars. He accompanied Napoleon on almost all of his campaigns. Napoleon called him “the most virtuous man I have ever known.”

Among his many innovations include introducing field hospitals, ambulance services, and first-aid practices to the battlefield. He was also the first to note the contagiousness of trachoma (1802) and published the first description of trench foot (1812).

Napoleon would say this of Larrey: “If the Army were to erect a monument of the memory of any one man, it should be that of Larrey. All the wounded are his family.”

Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson

Rules: Post 4 pieces of art you like and make a poll so that people can vote for their favorite, then tag 4 friends to do the same.

Double Portrait of both Artists ("Friendship-portrait") by Jean-Baptiste de Champaigne and Nicolas de Plattmontagne, 1654. The young man on the right is Champaigne, drawn by his friend Plattmontagne! On the left is Plattmontagne drawn by Chapaigne. Please note that he had placed him on the place where normaly the artwork sits, - the easel!

Les Hasards heureux de l'escarpolette (The Swing) by Jean Honoré Fragonard, 1767. Aaaa I love this painting sm and had the canche to see it in person last week! It just ❁glitters❁ and every leave is just perfectly painted <3

Le serment des Horaces by Jacques-Louis David, 1784. Since David is one of the old weird men I happened to have an big obsession with I could not decide which oh his works to chose, so here you have this painting as a representative of all his art.

Pygmalion et Galatée by Anne-Louis Girodet, 1819. This painting. is just. full of light. (I'm not normal about it)