Lord Leighton • "de chic"

"…pupils were expected to invent draperies and accessories.   Leighton had shown himself a great adept at doing this, making skillful drawings of folds that he told a friend afterwards were made de chic." 

~ from Frederic Leighton (1904) by Alice Corkran

"…an artist who paints a picture without a model says that he did it "de chic." ~ A Social Mirage (1899) by Mrs. Frank Leslie

A Social Mirage (1899) by Mrs. Frank Leslie

Fire & Life

Edward J. Poynter ~ Study for Advertisement of an Assurance Company

Guardian Assurance Company - Edward J. Poynter - 1886

Drawings of Sir E. J. Poynter .. (1905) ~ https://ia600506.us.archive.org/13/items/drawingsofsirejp00bell/

I went with the jp2.zip

Anders Zorn • Tur hos Damerna

or: Why what I first thought shouldn't surprise! (see previous post)

Photographed …Drawn …Altered …Refined …Painted

2 by Robert Fawcett

Robert Fawcett

1. circa 1940

An ad for Country Gentlemen/the Curtis Publishing Company, which I believe highlights the facts found in ~ ‪Selective Spending in Rural American: An Analysis of the United States Consumer Purchase Survey Conducted by the Bureau of Home Economics and the Bureau of Labor Statistics (rural Phase) ... Commercial Research Division, the Curtis Publishing Company‬ (published 1940, 33 pages)

2. 1949

Continental Oil Company

CONOCO Nth Motor Oil : "Soft" armor that baffles burglars

Richard, Duke of Gloucester, and the Lady Anne

by Edwin Austin Abbey

Richard, Duke of Gloucester, and the Lady Anne, 1896 Oil on canvas 133.7 x 265.1cm (52 5/8 x 104 3/8in.) Yale University Art Gallery ; Edwin Austin Abbey Memorial Collection (1937.2224)

THE SKETCHBOOKS OF WILLIAM BOUGUEREAU

& TWO LOOSE LEAFS

A local girl,

a local girl & horse,

the organic relationship of a mother and child,

of a group,

colour notes,

a sleeping baby,

a sleeping man,

a roadside inn,

a church interior,

caricature,

gesture.

for the particulars and much more ~ http://www.photo.rmn.fr/cf/htm/Search_New.aspx

Master Copy #10

or: d'après l'antique #1

Jules-Elie Delaunay (1828-1891) after Phidias (circa 480 BC – 430 BC)

Jules-Elie Delaunay Parthénon - Frieze E VI 38-40 ; N VI 16 Graphite on tracing paper Inv. 4228

E VI : Poseidon, Apollo, Artemis (38-40)

N VI : four hydriaphoroi (water-carriers)

Andrew Loomis on:

The Female Figure

"Rosalind Hayes is built like a brick $h¡thouse." ~ Andrew Loomis