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Title: La toilette - Berliner Zinnfiguren
Post by: marko on April 11, 2015, 08:45:49 PM
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)
Title: Re: La toilette - Berliner Zinnfiguren
Post by: Casper Friedrich on June 12, 2015, 02:35:22 AM
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.
Title: Re: La toilette - Berliner Zinnfiguren
Post by: Nicholas Ball on June 12, 2015, 04:21:56 AM
There you go Mark, for realistic purposes, a few painted wrinkles may be required!!!!! :o   ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: La toilette - Berliner Zinnfiguren
Post by: Casper Friedrich on July 07, 2015, 01:33:29 AM
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/
Title: Re: La toilette - Berliner Zinnfiguren
Post by: marko on July 07, 2015, 01:26:28 PM
This is great.


Apparently I have been getting dressed incorrectly all these years...


mark  8)