La toilette - Berliner Zinnfiguren

[marko]

This is great.


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


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[Casper Friedrich]

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/

[Nicholas Ball]

There you go Mark, for realistic purposes, a few painted wrinkles may be required!!!!!    

[Casper Friedrich]

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.

[marko]

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.


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