Madame Gautreau loved this painting when it was finished. She didn’t love it so much after it was exhibited and caused a scandal. And it wasn’t just the strap; reddened ears in 19th century portraiture meant the same thing they do in animation, especially anime and donghua, today. She survived the incident by turning on Sargent. He had to leave Paris but never fear, he found a new audience, though his reputation was never quite the same again. Madame G refused the portrait and Sargent had a terrible time finding a home for it until the Met eventually purchased it in 1916.
I chose the apple blossoms because, apparently, fruit tea was, and continues to be, big in France.
Golden Paints acrylics, upcycled pearls, and an upcycled hair clip on 7”x9” canvas board.
The flower is technically a plumeria I bought when I got married on Kaua’i in 2006, not a hibiscus but it’s pretty, it matched, and I wanted to use it for something special. Madame is one of my favorite paintings and she was, rudely, back in Paris last time I was at the Met and I missed and I hope that, perhaps, giving her a gift will ensure her presence next time I’m there.
Madame Gautreau loved this painting when it was finished. She didn’t love it so much after it was exhibited and caused a scandal. And it wasn’t just the strap; reddened ears in 19th century portraiture meant the same thing they do in animation, especially anime and donghua, today. She survived the incident by turning on Sargent. He had to leave Paris but never fear, he found a new audience, though his reputation was never quite the same again. Madame G refused the portrait and Sargent had a terrible time finding a home for it until the Met eventually purchased it in 1916.
I chose the apple blossoms because, apparently, fruit tea was, and continues to be, big in France.
Golden Paints acrylics, upcycled pearls, and an upcycled hair clip on 7”x9” canvas board.
The flower is technically a plumeria I bought when I got married on Kaua’i in 2006, not a hibiscus but it’s pretty, it matched, and I wanted to use it for something special. Madame is one of my favorite paintings and she was, rudely, back in Paris last time I was at the Met and I missed and I hope that, perhaps, giving her a gift will ensure her presence next time I’m there.
