Description : "The naked child as a subject is as old as art itself. This series catalogues the many examples and discusses the issues around the naked child."
So, seeing as I’ve mentioned that Suzanne Valadon posed for Pierre-Auguste Renoir… and became his lover, I might as well look at his work. He didn’t do many child nudes, although some of his models look as though they may be in their early teens.
Suzanne Valadon… started out as a model for Lautrec, possibly in her late teens. She also modelled for Renoir and Puvis de Chavannes and had affairs with both. She had a son with an unidentified father who later became a famous artist in his own
This one is interesting because Pierre Puvis de Chavannes… had an affair with one his models and also an artist, Suzanne Valadon. I’ll deal with her in a subsequent entry. Puvis de Chavannes was a symbolist. Many of his nudes were in the form of
Théophile Auguste Vauchelet What’s interesting about these is that they are allegories of the pre-Fall innocence of children – little Adams and Eves.
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Another female painter… who tragically died young. Marie Madeleine Rignot-Dubaux (1857-87). This is Ne la reveillex pas …(do not wake up). It’s an odd painting. Obviously an allegory, but of what? Perhaps innocence – the title is a command to not wake up from the
Don’t know much about Jules-Alexis Muenier (1863-1942). This is La jeune modele posant dans l’atelier (A young model posing in the studio).
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I had mentioned Eugène Delacroix in the entry on photographer Eugéne Durieu (here), at that time I hadn’t found any examples of Delacroix doing a child or adolescent nude, but now I have. Here’s Académie de jeune femme, 1838.
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Eugène Emmanuael Amaury Duval studied with Ingres. The first painting is in black and white because it is a reproduction from the official catalogue to the Centenary Exhibition of the art of France, 1800-1889 (l’Exposition centennale de la l’art Français…). That it appeared
Prince Henry Lubomirski was called the most beautiful boy in Europe. I’ve already reproduced two portraits by two different female artists, Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun and Angelica Kauffman. Another artist to depict his legendary beauty was Italian sculptor Antonio Canova…. I wonder what
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