Despair by Perraud
by Weston Westmoreland
Title
Despair by Perraud
Artist
Weston Westmoreland
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Despair, by Jean-Joseph Perraud, 1869.
Marble statue carved by Perraud in 1869. A plaster model of this same sculpture was exhibited at the Salon de Paris of 1861 under the title "Ahi! Null altro che pianto al mondo dura (Petrarch)" (Nothing lasts in this world but pain). Le Desespoir can be found at the Orsay Museum.
The Orsay Museum was a Beaux-Arts railway station inaugurated in 1900. The main facade was comprised between two clock towers. There is a restaurant behind the western clock and the museum galleries open to the eastern one, the one in the picture.
Orsay is considered the chronological continuation of the Louvre painting and sculpture collections and houses the largest collection of Impressionist and post-Impressionist masterpieces in the world, by painters including Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Sisley, Gauguin, and Van Gogh.
As for Paris... What can one say about the City of Light that has not already been said?
More views of Paris one copy-paste away in my Gallery at http://westonwestmoreland.com/collections/paris
More amazing statues, sculptures and carvings at https://weston-westmoreland.pixels.com/collections/statues+sculptures+carvings
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October 15th, 2020
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