Muses: Ginette Lantelme

I found my way to this amazingly beautiful lady beginning with Colette. Colette lead me to best friend Misia Sert and Misia's husband, whose lover Genevieve "Ginette"Lantelme was. Misia was extremely jelaous of the actress in a way I also know, and I think many women do - she wanted to BE Lantelme. Wanted to look like her, move like her, speak like her. It was jelaousy and fascination. Proust used this as the model for Gilberte's jealousy of Rachel and Saint-Loup in his most famous book.

But I believe nor Misia nor we would like to have Genevieve's end - she died falling down from her lover's (then already husband's) yacht at the age of 28.

Born in 1883 as Mathilde Hortense Claire Fossey...

At fourteen she was one of the lures at her mother's brothel, but soon became an acclaimed Paris actress. Theatregoers savoured her reputation for enjoying the bodies of men and women with equal pleasure: her languid slouch was imitated by other Parisian vamps.

by Giovanni Boldini

Impressions from the gallery: Pierre-Georges Jeanniot

Pierre-Georges Jeanniot

(1848-1934)

painter, designer, watercolorist 

repeatedly exhibited and awared at the Salon

He was gifted with many talents and also excelled with drawings. He showed in his drawings passion and artistic strength. They are vivacious, expressive and enthusiastic, while at the same time, rendering with a sense of humour the picturesque scenes of daily life. He illustrated a large number of literary books.

illustration to Les Miserables

I find his style very diversified.

Movie time: Far from the madding crowd

Far from the madding crowd 

Movie based on Thomas Hardy's novel, with a good acting of Carey Mulligan, her wonderful costumes and breathtaking landscapes.

Beige laces

On beige, on caramel, on ivory... or, as I call it ... on cake-ready-to-be-baked ... for evening.

Evening Dress

1908-1910

1902

Jean Philippe Worth
1902


1912

1900

1900

1920

Winterhalter

Franz Xaver Winterhalter

Każda kobieta, którą portretował wydawała się być nieskończoną pięknością. Po zdjęciach z tamtych czasów można wywnioskować, że malarz często mocno ubarwiał urodę damy, ale po co być artystą, jeśli nie można polepszyć rzeczywistości? I przy okazji zostawić światu kolekcji subtelnych, lecz wyrazistych portretów ówczesnych celebrytów, takich jak królowe, księżne i artystki?

Bliżej mi nieznana Betsy Morin

Cecile Furtado-Heine

Cesarzowa Eugenia

Śpiewaczka Adelina Patti

Maria Aleksandrowna (Heska)  (żona cara Aleksandra II)


Olga von Wurttemberg (siostra cara Aleksandra II, jej uderzające podobieństwo do szwagierki jest zadziwiajace)




Pani Middleton