Friday, December 2, 2022

Gouache (Europe)

Anonymous Dutch Artist
Scene in a Park
17th century
gouache on paper
Musée du Louvre

Jacob Jordaens
St Ives, Patron of Lawyers
ca. 1645
gouache on paper
(tapestry cartoon)
Musée du Louvre

Carl Gustav Klingstedt
Leda and the Swan
(after a drawing by Michelangelo)
before 1734
gouache on vellum
Musée du Louvre

Jean-Baptiste Oudry
Various Birds in a Wooded Landscape
before 1755
gouache on paper
Musée du Louvre

Jean-Baptiste Oudry
Various Birds in a Wooded Landscape
before 1755
gouache on paper
Musée du Louvre

Pierre Jouffroy
Marie Leczinska, consort of Louis XV
1760
gouache on leather
Musée du Louvre

Louis-Jean-Jacques Durameau
Manufacturing Saltpetre
1766
gouache on paper
Musée du Louvre

Niclas Lafrensen
Le déjeuner en tête-à-tête
ca. 1780
gouache on paper
Musée du Louvre

Pierre-Joseph Redouté
Peonies
1837
gouache on paper
Musée du Louvre

Alexandre-Jean Noël
View of Pyramids and Sphinx
before 1838
gouache on paper
Musée du Louvre

James Roberts
Portrait of Charles Sauvageot in his Study in Paris
1856
gouache on paper
Musée du Louvre

Camille Pissarro
Bathers at Water's Edge
ca. 1894-96
gouache on silk
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Myrtle Florence Broome
Rockery in Avalon Garden, Bushey
ca. 1930
gouache on paper
Bushey Museum and Art Gallery, Hertfordshire

Israël Léo Dubson
Paganini in Prison
1935
gouache on ivory
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Israël Léo Dubson
Paganini's Farewell to his Violin
1935
gouache on ivory
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

from 49

A star screen shimmers under the moon over the urban center flashing on it red and green
I'll have a suspension, mustard, topicality, glue
Kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty
Whipped gouache just about covers the situation
In the Musée Unless there's a fallen nest on display empty of an egg once
     belonging to a song bird, species unknown, which had sung
See style, see working late, see mismatched socks, see polyphony 
It is the fate of logic infinitely to undo closure but that's just to say that it's the
     fate of logic infinitely to be logical
So like a man goes into a shop and there's like this other man in there whom he
     thinks he recognizes and he says like do I know you 
The fallen grass in winter sprawls its spring
Regulations state that the pier can accommodate no more than one troupe of
     acrobats, thirty fishermen, or fifty tourists

– Lyn Hejinian (from The Unfollowing, 2016)