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Flat Figures Painters Forum => Review Section => Flat Figure Sets => Topic started by: marko on April 11, 2015, 08:45:49 PM
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La toilette - Berliner Zinnfiguren - engraved by Mohr
Another birthday buy I have also found completely charming by the incomparable, Mohr.
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Examples in our gallery from Sir Eric and Ken Pipes.
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There is also a stunning example by Douchkine on Gianpolo Bistulfi's site.
mark 8)
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The aged spectacled husband reading a book-isn´t it a portrait of the still-life artist Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin? At least I am going to paint mine that way.
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m577nzBvx51qggdq1.jpg
It is a bit funny that Chardin died in 1779 and the scene takes places a year latter and was never married to a woman that younger than himself.
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There you go Mark, for realistic purposes, a few painted wrinkles may be required!!!!! :o ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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The African page boy (Mohrenknabe in German, surely the figure is a pun on the engraver's surname!) with parfume-bottles and his toys is almost as from William Hogarth's somewhat earlier painting The Toilette in his series Marriage à la Mode, but lacking the deaper symbolism:
https://mydailyartdisplay.wordpress.com/2011/05/07/marriage-a-la-mode-the-toilette-by-william-hogarth/
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This is great.
Apparently I have been getting dressed incorrectly all these years...
mark 8)