Hentai français, or (Carte) Blanche with the mirrors

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Hentai Français, or

(carte) Blanche

with the mirrors


Walter/ Richard Sickert - Portrait of Jacques-Émile Blanche (c.1910)


John Sargent - Portrait of Jacques-Émile Blanche (c.1890)


“D’ici cinquante ans, on verra dans les musées les portraits que j’aurai peints, de tant de littérateurs, mes amis; et de l’auteur de ces portraits, il n’y pas aura trace dans aucun livre de son époque. Je suis peut-être le seul artiste de mon âge, dont il n’existe pas la moindre monographie et que le Larousse ignore.” “Fifty years from now, the portraits of many writers and artists will be hanging in the museums; yet not single book will be written about their author. I am perhaps the only artist of my age who does not have a biography written about him, and who is ignored by Larousse”

2012 1997 2013


Jacques-Émile Blanche: Google Image Search impressions


Portrait of Walter Sickert (1898)


Portrait of Richard Sickert (1935)


Portrait of Walter/Richard Sickert’s mother (1932)


Portrait Edgar Degas (1903)


Portrait Edgar Degas (1903) - detail


Jules Taschereau, Edgar Degas, Jacques-Émile Blanche (standing) (1895)


Portrait of Aubrey Beardsley (1895) Portrait of Charles Conder (1904)


Portraits of Marcel Proust (1892 & 1894)


Portrait of Henry James (1908) Portrait of Thomas Hardy (1906)


Portrait of Francis Poictevin (1887) Portrait of Jean-Louis Forain (1908)


Portrait of Jean Cocteau (1913)

Portrait of André Gide (1912)


Portrait of James Joyce (1935) Portrait of Percy Grainger (1906)


Portrait of Vaslav Nijinsky (1910) Portrait of Igor Stravinsky (1915)


Portrait of a baroness in the Louis XVI costume

Portrait of senora Eugenia Huici De Errazuriz

Desiree


Portrait of a baroness in the Louis XVI costume

Jacques-Émile Blanche paints a portrait


Portraits of female model (Desiree Manfred)


Portraits of children


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Where are the mirrors?


Fillette au mirior, aka Psyché (1889)



Maurice Lobre - Cabinet de Toilette de Jacques-Émile Blanche (1888)


“Un soir de décembre, il neigeait, j’étais chez moi méditant et m’apercevant que je n’aurais rien à exposer ‘pour la vente’… quand on sonna à ma porte. Une femme étrange, voilée, venait avec une enfant me proposer un modèle tel que je n’en trouverais un nulle part. On savait que j’étais en peine et que je demandais des fillettes. La pourvoyeuse fit tomber le capuchon couvert de flocons, puis la mante où s’enveloppait la petite. Je fus saisi. Cette petite n’avait point d’âge : corps menu, mais formé, un visage admirable, des yeux verts qui me rappelaient les maîtresse de Debussy ; un je ne sais quoi d’indécis, de morbide qui, d’abord, me fit répondre que je n’avais pas besoin de modèle. Mais la mère ne l’entendait pas ainsi ; elle fut insistante, si menaçante, que de guerre las [sic], je donnai rendez-vous à “Daisy” et à sa terrible mère.“ “One evening in December, it was snowing, I was at home meditating that I have nothing to put ‘for sale’ … the bell rang at my door. A strange woman, veiled, offered me her child as model, saying that I won’t find anyone like her anywhere. Looks like she knew I was in trouble and I need the girl models. The purveyor knocked off a cap covered with snowflakes, and I saw a young girl. I was seized. That little had no age, a tiny but already formed body, an admirable face, green eyes that reminded me of the mistress of Debussy; I don’t quite know what morbid creature in me told at at first that I did not need a model. But the mother did not hear it, and kept insisting, even threatening me [sic!], so I made an appointments with “Daisy” and her terrible mother.”


Desiree (1912)


Desiree Manfred dort près du miroir (1912)


Desiree Manfred touche le miroir (1913)


Desiree Manfred face à son miroir (1914)


Desiree (1915)


Desiree in front of a mirror (1918)



Desiree (1915)


Desiree as s Spanish traveller (1917)


Fillette au mirior, aka Psyché (1889)

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Hentai français, or (Carte) Blanche with the mirrors