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Lucy Hearne Keane's avatar

Oh I do like the Sharp and Landseer paintings in particular. If only I had a pot of gold to splurge 💰

Liz Gwedhan's avatar

Gosh I love that Boilly! I could live with that. The Dorothea Sharp is gorgeous. I scanned it closely for clues as to where it was painted. I may do more research…

Mathew Lyons's avatar

Let me know if you find an answer! I could live with the Boilly - but I don’t know that I’d want to look at it all the time.

Marian Grudko's avatar

It's always the question, isn't it: would I want this on my wall? If I could choose, I would have the Louvre Botticelli, though the other is more fascinating. The Sand Castle would be a joy to own. The stag certainly could be King Lear; I thought of C.S Lewis' Aslan.

Mathew Lyons's avatar

OK, well, if you take the Louvre Botticelli I’m happy to settle for this one! Practical considerations make the Landseer a difficult one for me. I don’t think we could get it through the door. I like the Aslan analogy though.

Marian Grudko's avatar

Re the Botticelli: it's a deal! Too bad about Aslan/Lear; we'd have to rent a loft space exclusively for that painting. (Do you know if it went to anyone's home?? I'd like to see that, too. ) Thanks for giving me a glimpse, albeit via my screen.

Brooks Riley's avatar

I very nearly used that Boilly painting for my post about Courbet last month--but decided to go with another illustration. Although he was a serious portraitist, Boilly seemed to delight in being a caricaturist as well. In this painting he might possibly be mocking French academic art's 'tête d’expression competition', devoted to the exploration of facial expressions. This Boilly painting also reminds me of the late great Austrian caricaturist Manfred Deix, whose cast of Austrian types never failed to delight.

Mathew Lyons's avatar

That’s really interesting. Thank you, Brooks. I will look out your Courbet post later. And thanks for introducing me to Deix. I’m not familiar with him at all!

Nicola Jane Bennett's avatar

Again, a lovely look at what passes through the auction houses. Although, I cannot un-see what appears to be an early example of rabbit's ears behind the weeping man in no. 8.

Mathew Lyons's avatar

Thank you! And that’s a good spot. I hadn’t noticed. Unfortunately I now can’t unsee it either…