Eat Your Porridge!

or: All roads lead to David‽

 each  "~"  =  "who was a student of"

William-Adolphe Bouguereau

William Bouguereau ~ François-Édouard Picot ~ François-André Vincent and also of Jacques-Louis David!

J.C. Leyendecker

J.C. Leyendecker ~ Jean-Joseph Constant dit* Benjamin-Constant ~ Alexandre Cabanel ~ François-Édouard Picot ~ François-André Vincent and also of Jacques-Louis David!

Norman Rockwell

Norman Rockwell ~ George B. Bridgman ~ Jean-Léon Gérôme ~ Hippolyte De La Roche, dit* Paul Delaroche ~ Antoine-Jean Gros, baron Gros ~ Jacques-Louis David!

&

Norman Rockwell ~ George B. Bridgman ~ Gustave Rodolphe Clarence Boulanger ~ Hippolyte De La Roche, dit* Paul Delaroche ~ Antoine-Jean Gros, baron Gros ~ Jacques-Louis David!

Norman Rockwell ~ Frank Vincent DuMond, aka Du Mond ~ Gustave Rodolphe Clarence Boulanger ~ Hippolyte De La Roche, dit* Paul Delaroche ~ Antoine-Jean Gros, baron Gros ~ Jacques-Louis David!

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Norman Rockwell ~ Frank Vincent DuMond, aka Du Mond ~ Jean-Joseph Constant dit* Benjamin-Constant ~ Alexandre Cabanel ~ François-Édouard Picot ~ François-André Vincent and also of Jacques-Louis David!

*called

Cool Oil Painting Tip #37

Incorporating the ground tone into the finish.

For this portrait vignette artist Samuel Edmund Oppenheim employs the tone of the ground  as the highlights of both face and hair. Here marked in blue~

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In the following landscape Daniel Garber uses a coloured ground as the home tone for his colour scheme.  

Note just how generously the ground is left bare. Again, here marked in blue~ 

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Nearly every canvas by illustrator J. C. Leyendecker incorporates the ground tone.

In this detail the ground tone is left as the collars local and used as a neutral within others (locals).

J.C. Leyendecker ~ Christmas Number 1906

J.C. Leyendecker ~ December 1905

JOSEPH CHRISTIAN LEYENDECKER 
1874 - 1951

THE COURTSHIP, 1905

signed J.C. Leyendecker l.l.

oil on canvas

22 by 15 1/2 in.

(55.9 by 39.4 dm)

Notice how the artist altered the canvas after publication: the lettering Success Magazine and December 1905 have been overpainted, a bow added, and the woman's averted eyes have been non-averted. (Magenta "glaze" courtesy the printer.)

Merry Christmas!

Henry J Soulen - The Ladies' Home Journal - December 1922

Frank Brangwyn - The Radio Times - Christmas Number

F X Leyendecker - Collier's - Christmas 1902

Tableau vivant? Pictorialism? Cosplay? …?

You decide!

The desire to re-create paintings and drawings in the flesh can be found everywhere;

J.C. Leyendecker, 1918 Weapons for Liberty

at a photographers studio,

Washington, D.C., circa 1918. "Robert Hall, group"

The Raft of the Medusa, 1818-19,  Théodore Géricault

and another photographers studio,

El Jaleo, 1882 John Singer Sargent 1856-1925

at the cinema,

The Alamo, 1960 - John Wayne

Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, 1863 - Manet

crate diving

Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe - The New Jazz Orchestra

at a K-1 event

Yuichiro "Jienotsu" Nagashima

Merry Christmas!

Was your list fulfilled?

NON-LEYENDECKER

Some time ago, a website naïvely attributed the work of an unknown copyist  as being studies by the hand of J.C. Leyendecker. Unfortunately the images spread like wildfire across the web, and though the claim has since been retracted (I believe), the embers continue to find dry brush. 

For lack of a better word FAKES ~ http://www.americanartarchives.com/leyendeceker,jc_studies.htm

Without going on at length regarding the merits of drawing or brush handling, let me state this~ The method employed by the copyist: grisaille underpainting with colour glazes (akin to tinting b&w photos) was never a technique practised by either of the Leyendeckers.

Now lets identify some of the non-Leyendecker copies.

Alma-Tadema copy

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema,  A Silent Greeting 

Dagnan-Bouveret etude

Dagnan-Bouveret, Manon Lescaut

Meissonier y Dagnan-Bouveret copies

Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier

Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier

Meissonier copy

Augustus John, Portrait of Bernard Shaw

assorted copies - Post cover by J.C. Leyendecker

Sir William Orpen, Portrait of Roland Knoedler

Swipe Spot #10

Rutland post office murals, painted in 1937 by Stephen J. Belaski, depict the early history of Vermont.

mural by Stephen J. Belaski

A quick glance reveals a familiar profile.

Thats right Stephen J., the world has caught on to your subterfuge!

cover art by J.C. Leyendecker

Another panel, this with no recognizable faces.

Rutland… isn't that where the Prefab Four are from?

the rutles

Swipe Spot #7

Morton's Iodized Salt / Help Keep Your Family Goiter Free! by unidentified artist. It's telling, that the weakest part of the picture is the figure that wasn't swiped (at least, not from Leyendecker).




Saturday Evening Post covers by J.C. Leyendecker.

-detail from the original canvas-