Showing posts with label Courtois and Bouveret. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Courtois and Bouveret. Show all posts
Friday, August 7, 2020

Friday Art, Part 2 - The Nude Work of Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret

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A couple of weeks ago I posted some work by Gustave Courtois, the lover and business partner of Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret.  Now it's P...
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"Side pose, full crop" was the description that came with this Bouveret drawing.
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Bouveret's use of the light in this painting is exceptional.  Interestingly, this model  appears in a number of contemporaneous  ...
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This undated Bouveret drawing was labeled only "Back Study."
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My source described this Bouveret painting as a study rather than an academic work,  and some research on my part bore that out.  Bou...
Friday, July 24, 2020

France Day, Part 2 - Courtois of Courtois and Bouveret

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Gustave Courtois (left) and Pascal Dagnan Bouveret met in a Paris art academy and became successful artists of the Academic style.  The...

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As you will see in the following posts of this series, Courtois was not known for doing full nudes.  He did, however, produce a number ...

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Courtois' work frequently featured Christian saints or figures from Classical mythology.  This is a study for a work the completed ...
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Courtois and Bouveret's friend and fellow artist Karl Ernst von Stetten may have been the model  for  Oedipus Killing His Father ...
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Several observers believe that the beefy model for Courtois' Paradise Lost was 1900's era strong  man Maurice Deriaz, who ha...

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The Corn Sorter is by far the least erotic of today's Courtois paintings,] but it shows an easy familiarity with a handsome male ...