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Friday, April 23, 2021

That can't be easy


I can't quite figure out why Montfort's model here is perched on the ball of one foot.
I'm sure my life model friend from London will enlighten me on this one.

 

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  1. That hairstyle strongly reminds me of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1819-1861), the Prince Consort of Queen Victoria - famous not so much for having lived but died. Antoine-Alphonse Montfort was principally an "Orientalist" painter and very prolific and so I cannot find this particular painting online to date it, but from the hair, I would imagine it was committed to canvas in the 1850s.

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    1. Your dating would make this likely to be a study rather than an academic piece. (Montfort would have been in art school around 1825.) Like you, I could not find a corresponding finished painting, so maybe this was a study for a never completed or never undertaken work?

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  2. That raised left foot is odd. I just tried it, even a slight rise lifts my left buttock. Causing a tilt in my pelvis. I did this nude in the bathroom mirror, dedication for you... Almost as if the legs were drawn or were odd lengths?

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    1. True dedication! I hadn't thought about odd lengths, but it makes sense.

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    2. Thanks. I often do a "try out", see if the pose suits me.

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